Dozens of tourists called for international assistance after saying they had become stranded in a remote mountain town in Cusco, Peru for over 24 hours as locals refuse passage to Bolivia amid widespread protests across the country. “We’ve been taken hostage in Peru, we need help,” a French woman said in the video taken on Dec. 13.
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