Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:44 AM 9/25/2006, you wrote: >A few years back an unfortunate tourist without a guide happened upon >a South American village where they were very paraniod about child >kidnapping (foreign adoptions are actually partly controlled by >criminal gangs in some areas). The villagers thought the photographer >was taking sample photos of their children and brutally murdered the >photographer as an example to others. > >John Collier That was a Japanese tourist in Guatemala. From the State Department warning page: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1129.html "Avoid close contact with children, including taking photographs, especially in rural areas. Such contact can be viewed with deep alarm and may provoke panic and violence. Rumors of foreigners stealing children surface periodically and can provoke a violent response towards strangers. Foreign tourists have been attacked by mobs and some years ago one was killed while photographing children." Read the whole page if you really want to be scared about going to Guatemala. I spend the whole time I'm there every year photographing children in rural areas and have never had a problem. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com