'I don't know who to trust anymore with what's going on. I keep being told one thing, sign up for this thing, now we're doing this way.'
The U.S. embassy in Honduras"was useless" and"totally unresponsive," according to Dennis Allen, who led a service trip with the Morgantown Church of Christ in West Virginia to the Central American country. The 16-person mission arrived on March 14, only to be told by contacts back in the U.S. to depart immediately. The next morning, they were unable to get flights out, and the day after that the Honduran government put the country on lock down.
Mike Rustici, left, and Linda Scruggs exit customs after arriving on a flight from Lima, Peru, March 21, 2020, at Miami International Airport in Florida. The pair's plight illustrates the desperation people stuck abroad experienced as the COVID-19 pandemic spread."This is our third set of tickets, and my credit card is maxed out," he said Tuesday."It's been an emotional roller coaster -- hope and failure, hope and failure, hope and failure.
What has been particularly frustrating to many Americans is to watch as other countries deployed government aircraft or arranged chartered flights for their citizens -- as Canada did in Honduras, Argentina did in Peru and France and the United Kingdom did in Morocco -- even as the U.S. continued to tell its citizens to take commercial flights that didn't exist anymore.
"The State Department did a great job getting us through the process and getting on a flight," Joyce Graham said last Friday, after days of being given the run around in Morocco and desperately seeking an evacuation plan from the U.S. embassy.
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