The article is about how to avoid getting kidnapped while travelling home or to work. It also includes how to avoid getting kidnapped and other ways to travel safely. The article does include that these are not normal kidnappings, they are short-term, opportunistic kidnappings and they are only aimed at taking money of the victim. It includes that victims can… Read more »
Transport safety There has been an increase in robberies on interstate transport and at bus stations, especially Quito, Baños and Latacunga tourist towns. Most incidents took place at night. Where possible you should avoid travelling by road after dark. Cases involving British nationals have been reported on the routes between Quito and Baños; Baños and Cuenca; Quito and Tulcan; Quito… Read more »
Hot weather and drought could spark the return of the Zika virus, scientists have warned. The disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, spread throughout Brazil and Latin America in 2015 and 2016 where it was linked to a spate of neurological defects among babies born to mothers infected with the virus.
The top forensic official in Mexico’s Jalisco state has been fired after it emerged some 150 corpses were being stored in a refrigerated trailer because local mortuaries were full. But Luis Octavio Cotero denied he was responsible for the storage of the unclaimed bodies, and accused the state government of making him a scapegoat. The trailer was spotted in at… Read more »
Colombian cocaine production hit record levels in 2017, according to newly released UN statistics. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says production rose about 31% year on year to some 1,400 tonnes, cultivated on 171,000 hectares. The agency warned production could harm recent peace-building efforts. Colombia is the world’s largest producer of cocaine, much of which ends up… Read more »