Inside CR
Carolina Silva, 29, an Argentine tourist was shot in the head Thursday in Playa Samara by two thieves trying to to steal her laptop.
Earlier this month, a young American was shot by a hotel security guard when he tried to sneak in after curfew.
These deaths and several other unsolved tourist "disappearances" are raising troubling questions about security in CR...which gets more than 2 million visitors annually.
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