Are tourists being murdered or beaten up in the Dominican republic for a certain reason or are they being dead out of natural causes?

Normally any were in the world you can be harmed or found dead if you ask the wrong questions or seek the wrong things in the wrong place. But this does not look like the case here. Police are good at covering up crimes about tourist who ask about preteen girls & boys or drugs & such. That was my first thought. This seems like a poison reaction. I see that in S.E. Asia. They spray with more than 1 type of spray a mix for insects that were not to be mixed. Some people have a reaction to such. I see that happen to a few of the back pack crews that visit. But normally a few days in the hospital it is wrote of as flew or bad water or such. Who stay in the cheaper hostels. But this is more high end. So maybe bootleg Rum. I to wonder. I also wonder what they drink? Some drinks mixed you can not tell the good stuff from the bad stuff.

I don't think it matters why, it matters that these crimes are occurring, and that DR officials are covering up and denying. One victim's relatives said they were pressured to cremate the body of their loved one.

There are too many suspicious deaths lately. The couple whose car supposedly plunged into the ocean while on the way to the airport. The high school kids who died ( can't blame that on a heart condition)

In a country where the officials are more beholden to drug lords than the rule of law, it's definitely not safe to visit.

People rejected by MLB just walk their bat game to another team player position.

I had a friend who went there on holiday 10 years ago. Day 1 - bus was hijacked and everyone robbed. Not much to do after that.

They have been dying after reportedly consuming stuff from their hotel room's minibar - most likely the people (making $0.85/day) who deliver the alcohol to the hotel/rooms are stealing it, and replacing it with poisonous cheap alcohol. What I don't understand is why in the hell people want to go to DR anyhow?

Visiting that country is a very stupid thing to do. Have these people no sense of self-preservation?

There are plenty of less dangerous and poverty-stricken places to visit.

All it takes is one gang that doesn't like tourists.

Each individual case is being separately investigated. So far, it looks like none of the deaths are from natural causes. It's probably a lot of coincidence. I think several of them are related to pest control used at the resorts. It's really frightening.

There was only one actual attack, and the victim did not die. The cause of death in the other cases is still uncertain, but it doesn't appear to be "murder," which is deliberate killing. Of course the DR wouldn't want tourists to be murdered.

The latest theory I've heard is tainted liquor. This has shown up in Mexico, too, and was responsible for some deaths there. However, no definitive answer has been found.

Edit: Yes, I know that, but Dominicans in general aren't going to be trying to damage the tourist trade. We get a lot of tourists in the US, and occasionally, one of them has been killed. The motive has not been to discourage tourism. It's usually been something like rape or robbery.

The current theory is that they are being poisoned by bootleg liquor. LOL