NYTimes: Underwater Safari - Cozumel
We were less enthusiastic about the food at our hotel. After a disappointing first meal at the open-air Caribeño restaurant Û the ceviche I ordered was made of frozen fish, some of which hadn't fully thawed Û we began taking taxis five miles into town ($5 each way) for dinner. But so many of the restaurants in the immaculately kept colonial town cater to tourists that we found it difficult at first to find authentic Mexican fare.
Maybe we were right to skip Cozumel on our recent trip to the Yucatan?
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A sad mystery of an American immigrant killed in Chile during the height of the Pinochet regime.
NYT: Chilean Mystery: Clues to Vanished American
Those documents indicate that Mr. Weisfeiler was probably kidnapped by Chilean state security forces, who reportedly handed him over to a secretive and heavily armed pro-Nazi religious sect based nearby.
One military informant said Mr. Weisfeiler, a Russian-born Jew, was held captive there, interrogated, tortured and finally executed.
