Eight of the world’s ten deadliest cities are in Latin America

http://m3report.wordpress.com ^ | Jan. 13, 2010

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Cloned passports and U.S. visas are being sold for between 7 and 10 thousand dollars in the Bolivian cities of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba.

Ten years ago, when I was on vacation in Vietnam, the hotels wanted to hold your passport while you stayed there. When they returned my passport at one hotel in the boondocks, I noticed it was ripped, but at the time I thought that might be a result of heavy usage (carrying it in my pocket and sitting down over a period of years). I'm still not sure if it wore out or was tampered with. A few weeks later, when I applied for a new passport, I had to write a letter to the govt. explaining what happened to the old passport.

Old movies show hotels in France holding your passport, but I have never stayed in a French hotel. I don't think hotels I stayed at in Germany, Greece, and Scotland wanted to hold my passport. I used to stay at hotels all over Mexico (some very cheap ones, like $2 a night) and don't think those hotels wanted my passport either.

I wonder how many places in the world still have this requirement, and how much forgery is involved. I'll bet expert forgers can make a tampered passport look more normal than the way mine looked.

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Stay outta those places!!