Prostitutes have been known to complain that they are the second place priority for many visiting Americans.
"After we got to the room, it wasn't me he wanted, but he wanted me to go into the street to buy drugs," said one woman echoing a continuing complaint.
That or a similar scenario may have been what happened Tuesday at the Hotel Morazán on Avenida 1 at Calle 7. A North American tourist turned up dead in a room.
The man was informally identified as Michael Silver, 41. An employee discovered his body about 2 p.m. An overdose is suspected, said the Fuerza Pública.
An autopsy will give the official word.
Silver had been coming to Costa Rica for several years, said some who knew him at the hotel.
A.M. Costa Rica/Saray RamÃrez Vindas
Investigators' vehicle at scene of death
If he was a cocaine user, Silver might be the victim of the changing patterns of drug smuggling. Because of heavy police pressure and new techniques at the Nicaraguan border, moving cocaine north is not as easy as it used to be.
In addition, drug smugglers pay helpers here in cocaine. That is why so many under employed fishermen are anxious to supply fuel, food and water to passing drug boats.
This means more and more cocaine, some of very high purity, is entering the Costa Rican market, In fact, the country is awash in cocaine in spite of dealers efforts to convert much of it to easily marketed crack.
Then, too, there is no consumer protection agency keeping watch on the local cocaine market. Dealers frequently cut cocaine with powders like lidocaine. Since tourists are not likely to be repeat customers, they most often get the adulterated drug.
Too much adulteration, and the tourist never will be a customer again.
A.M. Costa Rica
I dont have much to say about this except there might be a need for some low level chemist work in the valley. If they had only gone on to the net they could find out how to cut coke and or cook crack without losing their clientle. Literally!
"Crack Kills" In more ways than one.
By the way.
Have they ever found that coke that was hijacked from the Po Po two weeks ago?
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