ecuavisa.com/AFP reported a 97-year-old American woman was found dead inside the refrigerator of the House in which lived in the tourist city Playas de Rosarito, in the Northwest of Mexico, the State Prosecutor’s office reported Thursday. “The two door refrigerator was closed with a towel as a tourniquet. When opening the refrigerator door Lady body (was) found with various traces of violence”, he told the AFP Jesus Antonio Chávez Hoyos, Attorney General of Justice in the border city of Tijuana, near to Playas de Rosarito. HELLEN Minley, 97-year-old, originally from Ohio, living in the town with a couple who had been hired by his family so take
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Theguardian.com reported Canberran Kurt Steel among eight foreigners killed when bus ran off highway en route from Salar de Uyuni to La Paz. An Australian was among 10 people killed in Bolivia when a bus returning to La Paz from the Salar de Uyuni salt flats ran off the highway and crashed, police said. Police […]
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bbc.com reported Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group have begun leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community. The Lev Tahor members were asked to leave San Juan La Laguna after meetings with elders of the Mayan community. The elders accused the Jews of shunning the […]
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plenglish.com reported Colombia’s Vice-Minister of Health Fernando Ruiz confirmed today a new case of Chikungunya. The virus was detected in a person traveling to Bogota from the Dominican Republic. According to the medical diagnosis, the patient is under observation and doctors are trying to determine his level of contagion. Read Article
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janes.com reported El Salvador’s Mara street gangs have started targeting tourists for extortion, local media reported on 28 July. According to reports, members of the Mara gangs – organised street gangs with a presence in several Central American territories – have set up extortion points in the western department of Usulután on El Salvador’s Pacific […]
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CNN.com reported, Harry Devert left a job as a trader in finance to take a transcontinental motorcycle journey from the United States to Latin America. Six months ago, he vanished after sending his girlfriend in New York an ominous text message from a troubled region in Mexico, about being escorted from “an area too dangerous […]
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July 9th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) The claimants in the criminal fraud case against property developer Patrick Hundley of Daystar Properties include the property developers behind Croc’s Casino Resort in Jaco, a source close to Hundley tells Inside Costa Rica. According to the source, who prefers to remain unnamed but describes himself as a friend of Hundley, […]
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Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com Reported: Stig Pedersen, a member of the community of English speaking expatriates living in the Republic of Panama of US and Danish descent, died last night as a result of the injuries he received during a brutal assault and robbery. On June 21, six armed, masked men assaulted and abducted 73 […]
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gov.uk reported on 7 July a strong earthquake struck Guatemala, mainly affecting the Departments of San http://abilifygeneric-online.com/ Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, Totonicapan, Sololá, Retalhuleu and Suchitepequez. Aftershocks have also been felt. Local authorities have reported the death of 4 people and there has been damage to infrastructure, property in these departments and abiligy online transport routes.. […]
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