With the coronavirus shutting down borders, some turned to former intelligence officers to get home
On Sunday morning, a group of former military and intelligence officers were staged at a small airport on a Honduran island, loading up a plane that would whisk Americans back home amid the raging coronavirus pandemic.
One of the rescued Americans, Annie Perlick, a neonatal ICU nurse from Boston on vacation for a scuba trip, discovered she was about to be stranded when Honduras shut down its borders on March 15. Perlick tried the U.S. embassy and reached out to the senators from her home state with no luck. She purchased commercial airline tickets for later this week, as she watched flights being canceled left and right.
Then she heard about Global Guardian, a private security firm, which had begun to arrange a flight out of Roatan for several clients — including an entertainment company and law firm.
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