http://puravidadvd.com/features Your Source for Puerto Viejo Social News and Costa Rica Networking Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST en http://puravidadvd.com/features/category/Puerto-Viejo-Costa-Rica/police-apprehend-five-undocumented-african-migrants-in-manzanillo/ http://puravidadvd.com/features/category/Puerto-Viejo-Costa-Rica/police-apprehend-five-undocumented-african-migrants-in-manzanillo/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:27:46 EDT Aleale Puerto Viejo Costa Rica http://puravidadvd.com/features/category/Puerto-Viejo-Costa-Rica/police-apprehend-five-undocumented-african-migrants-in-manzanillo/
The Security Ministry said in a statement that the incident took place last Wednesday, when police discovered five foreigners, allegedly from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, who were walking in an unknown direction and with no identification documents.

Apparently, the five foreigners were abandoned on Manzanillo beach, near Puerto Viejo, and made to believe they were in Canada, presumably the final destination of the trip, the ministry explained.

18 Vote(s) ]]> http://puravidadvd.com/features/category/Puerto-Viejo-Costa-Rica/african-migrants-nabbed-in-costa-rica-seek-new-life/ http://puravidadvd.com/features/category/Puerto-Viejo-Costa-Rica/african-migrants-nabbed-in-costa-rica-seek-new-life/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:27:46 EDT Dangelo Puerto Viejo Costa Rica http://puravidadvd.com/features/category/Puerto-Viejo-Costa-Rica/african-migrants-nabbed-in-costa-rica-seek-new-life/ This is a phenomenon repeated more and more often in countries like Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which the authorities of those countries attribute to people-trafficking rings that promise to take undocumented migrants to the United States or Canada, only to leave them stranded on these tropical coasts.
Costa Rican authorities believe that these 41 Africans were brought here by traffickers to whom some paid as much as $7,500, while defenders of human rights recall that they come from areas shattered by wars and conflicts.
The Ethiopian "D.G." arrived on June 25 in Costa Rica on a boat from Venezuela, he told

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