French sailing assault and injure one of its crew in Venezuela. Five armed men hijacked a French yacht moored in the tourist island of Margarita, in northeastern Venezuela and injured one of his two crewmen, said on Wednesday told AFP the commander of a water rescue organization. “We got the call for help by a signal flare. A French couple were attacked by a small boat type vessel (small fishing boat) in which five people were aboard,” said Capt. William Pelaez, commander of the National Organization of Rescue and Maritime Security (ONSA). Read Article
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Three men were killed and three others wounded when gunmen opened fire on them in a street in Veracruz, a city on Mexico’s Gulf coast, city officials said. The shooting occurred on Monday in the Hidalgo section of Veracruz, located 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Mexico City, a Veracruz city spokesman said. Several men […]
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While many of Mexico’s tourist areas have remained separate from the bouts of drug violence buffeting the country, the popular resort city of Acapulco has emerged as one of the new hot spots of organized crime. Read Article
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On 12-AUG-2011 a resident of Potrerillos Arriba described as a Canadian National was arrested and spent the night in the holding cell at the Dolega Police Station (attached). The Canadian man who is a tourist was arrested when he was found to be intoxicated and harassing a group of Local Nationals in a bar located […]
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U.S. professor responds to skepticism about a report that a 24-year-old female was kidnapped in Puerto Viejo. Before sunrise Sunday, the Puerto Viejo de Talamanca community received a report that a U.S. tourist had been kidnapped near the beach town on the southern Caribbean coast. Local residents, the National Police and the Judicial Investigation Police […]
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On Friday August 5, at about 8 pm, managers of a hotel in Cartagena Center reported him to police the death of an American tourist, registered as Blake Wesley Jones, 34, in the bathroom one of its rooms. Three days later, on Monday August 8, was a Norwegian who died by jumping from the third […]
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An Australian national tourist drowned in the swimming community Yahuar in the district Tapay Caylloma province ( Arequipa ). The body was rescued by Police and taken to the morgue in the town of Chivay, which will be attended by representatives of the consulate in Australia. Read Article
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According to RPP.com.pe a Belgian tourist, Carl Carpentier was transferred to the Honorio Delgado Espinoza Hospital in Arequipa after falling into a ravine in the Coca Valley in the Caylloma province. Officials say Carpentier arrived in the Colca Valley yesterday, Monday August 1st, and was on his way to Arequipa when he fell into a […]
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A man was arrested this morning a suspect in the murder of two young French tourists on 23 and 30 years in a mountain pass in the northern province of Salta, Argentina, said today local government minister, Paul Kosin. He rented horses in the area of the Quebrada de San Lorenzo, where they found the […]
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An American tourist who had been missing since last April in the Ecuadorian Amazon was killed, said Monday the U.S. Embassy in Quito after the victim’s remains were found and identified. The body of Graham Murray , 23 also had Canadian nationality, was found by police on July 22 in the province of Morona Santiago, […]
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