NewsWhore
10-10-2007, 02:00 PM
There appears to be no way to stop the continual voyages made in flimsy handmade wooden craft towards Puerto Rico. This is the headline in today's El Caribe. A total of 2,357 persons have been taken into custody trying to land in Puerto Rico so far this year. This is already 109 more than all of 2006. The information can be found on the United States Coast Guard's website, www.uscg.gov (http://www.uscg.gov), where this month seven craft and 520 persons have been apprehended. The most recent tragedy recounts three dead women who washed up on the shores of Puerto Rico last week. A macabre photograph shows one of the victims holding a cell phone and some documents. Puerto Rican authorities have said that it is possible that the three women were victims of dehydration and were thrown overboard before the craft reached the shoreline. Two of the victims were from the Maria Trinidad Sanchez province, more precisely from the village of Boba, near Nagua, and the third was from La Vega.
One traveler upon his return to the DR, Franklin Mendez concluded that you have to live the experience to tell the story. "It is madness. I paid RD$16,000 for the time at sea, because here I am again without anything to do about it."
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One traveler upon his return to the DR, Franklin Mendez concluded that you have to live the experience to tell the story. "It is madness. I paid RD$16,000 for the time at sea, because here I am again without anything to do about it."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)