MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Is Argentina a safe country for tourists?, questions the French media
Following the killing of two French young women tourist-packers in the northern Argentine province of Salta, --with criminals still at large--, the issue of security, safety and crime in Argentina has been widely exposed in the European and Unite States media, particularly the so-called ‘express kidnapping”. Read full article
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Aug 03rd, 2011 - 02:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is not about the country, is about the people. I know for sure that you can find mother fu... anywhere in the world, not just in argentina.
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 04:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0In this day and age is anywhere safe?, what happened in the Argentine can happen anywhere and dose.
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0En esta época es en cualquier lugar seguro?, Lo que sucedió en la Argentina puede ocurrir en cualquier lugar y de la dosis.
There are dick heads and would be killers all over the world and I have met a few in my travels. Ignore the French media
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 06:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0The petty crap that this article addresses is pretty rife in BA.....
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is it worse than anywhere else in in SA? probably not...
Is it worse than the developed world? probably yes....
First day I was in BA some crunts pulled the 'spray the gringos with the disgusting shit'... That failed when my partner vomited over one of them....
Made the mistake of taking a taxi from Ezeiza once... about dusk.... got screwed with the 'you only gave me a ten...' trick.... In fairness they now hand out warnings when you are exiting the building... which say don't take a taxi... get a remise...
It is the only country I have been to ( OK I have led a sheltered life) where small ( and not so small )businesses keep their doors locked and where people as a matter of habit drive around with their car doors locked......
The world in general can be a dark and scary place...... anywhere!
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope this incident does not deter people from visiting Argentina. If you visit any large city anywhere in the world you need to exercise common sense.
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0When travelling in developing countries I am aware that desperate poverty means that some people will use desperate measures to get money. But random acts like the murder of tourists is, thankfully, rare and random.
Once when I was travelling in the Salta region I spent a day with some Dutch tourists I had met along the way. One was wearing an ostentatious Rolex watch that I estimate was worth at least £10,000. He deserved to be mugged; I wanted to mug him!
I am sorry i couldn't kiss the back end of a snob, many single tourists like to travel to exploit child prostitution or some form of prostitution slavery, I being to mexico and seen it being to Cuba and seen it, and the history books over the war in vietnam including north korea tells us who the violators are in all this cases I mention the abusers come from the soo called developed countyes, untill today there is french abuser killing libyans with USA, UK, canada and EU and this same people destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq, while they are pointing at us for the murder of 2 would be abusers ?? with that atitude I say good jobs guys keep up the good work, maybe we should give two guys jobs at the airport so they don't have to be looking around for tourists. in any case I say go to Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya where you will be treated like you all deserve, aca no see da ni un paso atras.
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Applying for a job as Tourism Minister?
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The problem is Catholicism. It contains loopholes for all of this activity.
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anywhere you see a Catholic church, hide your belongings.
sure blame religion the oldest trick in the book, but I am sure the racism behind all this hate and crimes are much easyer to prove. never forget that even people from oposite teams kill eachother in UK. DOG-glass.
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 011 I (#)--[[sure blame religion the oldest trick in the book,]
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0THEN YOU GO ON TO BLAME THE UK
pot kettle black,
there's no safe place in the world... I also thought about the sad incident in Norway...
Aug 10th, 2011 - 01:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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