After returning from a trip to Chile on Nov. 21, ’04, I found that the TSA locks on my luggage had been cut instead of opened. I immediately filed the appropriate claim form with the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) reporting that two TSA-approved locks had been cut and requesting reimbursement for their value. Over a month later, having heard nothing from them, I wrote to ITN. My letter appears in the April ’05 issue, page 86.

I thought ITN readers might be interested in...

We were in Guatemala for 12 nights in October ’04. The travel agency we used in Antigua, Voyageur Tours (Centro Comercial La Fuente, 4a. Calle Oriente No. 14, Antigua, Guatemala, C.A.; phone [502] 832-4237, fax 4247, e-mail info@travel.net.gt or visit www.travel.net.gt/ant.html), was outstanding. We made all contacts with them through e-mail.

We worked with Patricia Barragan and Miguel, the owner. They were extremely kind and helpful, and the arrangements were excellent. They arranged...

I write in response to the reader’s letter titled “Poverty in Bhutan” (April ’05, pg. 84).

It seems to me that Bhutan must compare very favorably to most countries, including the USA, by any objective measure of poverty.

There are no homeless and no beggars in Bhutan. There is no crime and no corruption. There is no prostitution. There are no ghettos. Even the rural “poor” live in large, freestanding, 3-story homes surrounded by their own extensive farmlands.

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