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U.S. State Department Issues Travel Warning for Belize

The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for Belize on Wednesday, January 10, warning American citizens to exercise caution when in the country. The advisory states that violent crime, such as sexual assault, armed robbery, and murder are common in Belize and local police lack the resources to respond effectively to serious criminal incidents.…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on January 19, 2018 at 4:51pm — No Comments

U.S. State Department Issues New Warning for Mexico Travel, Cites Increase in Kidnappings, Murders, Violent Robberies

The State Department report says 81 Americans were assassinated in Mexico last year, 10 more than in 2012, and an increase in kidnappings was noted in the states of Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Michoacán, Mexico and Morelos. During the first six months of this year the American embassy and consulates in Mexico received 70 reports of kidnappings of American citizens. Kidnappings were of the traditional kind, in which victims are physically removed from their surroundings, as well as “virtual,” in…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on August 16, 2014 at 5:30pm — No Comments

State Dept. Warning on Mexico - Full Text

Travel Warning

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Bureau of Consular Affairs

Mexico

July 12, 2013

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens about the security situation in Mexico.  General information on the overall security situation is provided immediately below.  For information on security conditions in specific regions of Mexico, which can vary, travelers should reference the state-by-state assessments further below.

This Travel…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on July 13, 2013 at 3:52pm — No Comments

State Dept. Travel Warning on Mexico States the Obvious: Tamaulipas & Nuevo Leon Are Dangerous

From ValleyCentral.com:

American officials have updated a travel warning to Mexico stating that neighboring Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon are among the least secure states in Mexico. The U.S. State Department issued the updated travel warning on Friday afternoon.

Officials offered general advice…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on July 13, 2013 at 3:50pm — No Comments

State Dept Documents U.S. Deaths in Mexico, But Not Disappearances

The drug war in Mexico has claimed at least 70,000 lives, but the full death toll may never be known because thousands are searching for relatives who have disappeared.

Along the border some of those missing in Mexico are U.S. citizens.

“It’s individuals that communicated with their loved ones on a daily basis and all of a sudden they disappear,” said Oscar Hagelseib, assistant special agent in charge of Homeland Security’s investigations in El Paso.

The agency helped…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 25, 2013 at 7:33pm — No Comments

U.S. Citizens Warned Against Libya Travel

The U.S. State Department's latest travel warning for Libya still advises U.S. citizens "against all but essential travel to Tripoli and all travel to Benghazi," citing ongoing instability and violence, but says non-emergency U.S. government personnel can return to the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.The State Department had ordered all non-emergency U.S. government workers out of Libya on September 12, the day after an attack that killed four Americans -- including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens --…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on March 11, 2013 at 4:40pm — No Comments

U.S. Travel Advisory for Mexico Remains in Place, but State Dept. Language Is Too Soft

Spring Breakers who want to take a dip in the Gulf of Mexico south of the border should be reminded of security concerns when visiting Matamoros, according to a U.S. Department of State Spring Break travel advisory.

“Travelers to the Mexican border should be especially aware of safety and security concerns due to increased violence in recent years between rival drug trafficking gangs competing for control of narcotics smuggling routes,” the advisory states.…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on March 10, 2013 at 2:45pm — No Comments

U.S. State Dept. Issues Travel Warning for Cusco, Peru, Including Macchu Pichu

Citing a heightened risk of kidnapping around Machu Picchu, Peru's No. 1 tourist attraction, the State Department has issued a security alert for U.S. travelers and has banned embassy employees from non-essential travel to the mountaintop Incan ruins and the Cusco region at large.

"The embassy has received information that members of a criminal organization may be planning to kidnap U.S. citizen tourists in the Cusco and Machu Picchu area," the alert reads. "Possible targets and…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 24, 2013 at 7:04pm — No Comments

Costa Rica - 3 Years On - Family Refuses To Give Up Search For Missing Journalist

Three years after his disappearance in Costa Rica and the Dixon family is no nearer to finding out what happened to their son.

Michael was last seen leaving his hotel in Tamarindo, Costa Rica on 18 October 2009.The British and Costa Rican response to the incident has been bugged by incompetence and false hope from start to end.

The Foreign Office did not tell the…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on October 18, 2012 at 9:43pm — No Comments

DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE MOVING TO THE THIRD WORLD!!

Another conversation with another mother (in this case, a mother -- could be a father, daughter, son, sister, brother, friend...) of a person missing in a foreign country, her own government (and mine) unwilling, unable to provide meaningful guidance, support, advice. I'm happy to be able to provide a bit of moral and practical advice and a connection with someone in her state who has been through the same ordeal. Then I'm on Facebook and see a guy who is scheduled to move in a couple weeks…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on September 8, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Project Update

Been very busy of late, and am really grateful for the people who have been keeping active and engaged. Special thanks to Julie Jones for staying on top of missing persons news and forwarding relevant cases and doing outreach where she believes K9 search and rescue resources can be of assistance, and to …

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on August 15, 2011 at 5:40am — No Comments

My Father's People: A Documentary About Murder & Betrayal in Honduras & Washington, D.C.

The beauty and power of social media reside in its ability to bring together people who would never otherwise find each other to share their stories and collaborate on common causes. This evening, Paul Lima, producer of a feature-length documentary, My Father's People. Paul's Dad, Albert, was murdered in Honduras in 2000, and the documentary follows Paul's efforts to find answers and justice for his family. Paul's… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on March 31, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Aubrey Sacco's Family Seeks State Dept. Assistance

The family of Aubrey Sacco, a 23-year-old Colorado woman who has been missing in Nepal since approximately April 20, 2010, is trying to get Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's help. Her family fears Aubrey has been kidnapped by human traffickers. Read the article, watch the interview. Please call, e-mail, and fax Secretary Clinton to demand that the… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on October 27, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

State Department Information That Might Actually Help Someone

If you're planning a trip outside the U.S., it is a good idea to follow these tips from the State Department.

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on August 14, 2010 at 1:22am — No Comments

The State Department's Misplaced Priorities

For over a year, we and the other families of the Missing Americans Project have been trying to get the State Department to take more than a perfunctory interest in the plight of U.S. citizens who disappear in foreign countries and their families. We've received little to no help. The State Department is profoundly uninterested in these issues.

During the same period, a colleague and friend of mine has been trying to get her family members in the Philippines permission to come to the…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on August 11, 2010 at 3:44pm — No Comments

Journalist Murders Spotlight Honduran Government Failures

This article on the Committee to Protect Journalists website highlights the fact that Honduras remains a violent and politically unstable country and that the country's leadership may well be behind the violence. And yet this is the country whose government the U.S. State Department wants my family to appeal to in order to obtain the presumptive death finding… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on July 28, 2010 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Why Can't Simple Things Be Easy?

Some things are complicated, some aren’t – and some simple things become unnecessarily complicated by politics and/or bureaucratic inertia. Over the past year, I have become quite the authority on simple things being made complicated.

In May 2009, my brother Joe Dunsavage disappeared while on vacation on Isla de Roatan, Honduras. We don’t really know what happened apart from the fact that he left the beach to tool around the shallows offshore in a 10-foot-long outboard-powered…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on July 27, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

FBI: 10-12 "Persons of Interest" in Aubrey Sacco's Disappearance

The FBI says there are 10 to 12 "persons of interest" in the disappearance of Aubrey Sacco, who has been missing in Nepal since April, her family said in this article on ABC 7 News.

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on June 29, 2010 at 4:06pm — No Comments

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