Emperor Hotel, Retiro Buenos Aires Argentina
On February 22, 2013, four armed assailants entered the Emperor Hotel in Retiro at approximately eleven pm in the evening according to online-911.com. The thieves stole cash and items from the reception area and lounge. They also stole items form tourists in the concierge area. However, one of the phones the robbers took had a GPS system which police used to track two of the assailants down and arrest them. Read Article.
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cronica.com.mx reported the Germans Breur Uwe Otto and Gunther were kidnapped last November by the ELN, the second active guerrilla in Colombia, while conducting ecotourism in the Catatumbo region, on the border with Venezuela. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today announced its willingness to participate in the humanitarian operation that seeks to […]
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A tourist from the United States died while snorkling in Cabo San Lucas. Robert Allen Wilkinson age 60 and from Alaska was a guest at the Hotel Wyndham. He and his son Aaron Wilkinson hired a boat headed to Bahía de las Gaviotas. When they were near the beach El Chileno, the boat made a […]
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latitude38.com reported…In disturbing news, Bill Lilly and his partner Judy Lang reported their Lagoon 470 Moontide was boarded by three armed men at about 2 a.m. yesterday while they were at anchor at Caleta de Campos, where they had stopped on their way from Zihua to Mazanillo. “I was awakened by banging on the sliding […]
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Ticotimes.net reported that CNE issued a green (preventive) alert in areas surrounding the volcano late last year, both for residents and visitors to the Rincón de la Vieja National Park. CNE Chief Operating Officer Walter Fonseca said they received multiple reports that the volcano has been spewing ashes and rocks in recent days. Rincón de […]
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Andrew Woofen from Florida was swept away as he entered a unsafe beach area of playa Punta Morena Cozumel. lapoliciaca.com reported that a passenger of the cruise ship Carnival Elation, drowned in a beach area on the east coast of the Cozumel. He entered a high risk area of the beach and was swept away, […]
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Garrett Hand and his girlfriend, Jamie Neal found safe in Peru on boat headed to Ecuador Reuters.com reported that…..A young California couple feared by family to have been abducted while on a cycling trip through Peru have safely surfaced on a river boat headed for Ecuador, surprised to learn they were subjects of an international […]
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Eluniversal.com.mx reported that for every two men, a woman becomes ill, the number of cases is very similar to the same period last year, said Jose Alberto Ramón Muñiz Castillo, program manager at the Health District. The program in this border microbacteriosis recorded 12 new cases of tuberculosis from January to date, in addition to […]
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diariocontraste.com reported that 84.6% of the cases occurred in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Parana, Espiritu Santo, Mato Grosso and Goiás, all of the south, southeast and center-west of the country , according to the epidemiological balance released by the Ministry. “The situation of these eight […]
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diariopanorama.com reported that the average of reported new cases of HIV-AIDS remained stable in the last five years, with 5500 diagnoses per year, the Ministry of Health. He said that of this total, 90% are people who became infected through unprotected sex, and about 100 new cases per year are children who are infected by […]
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