With his wife stuck overseas and running out of money, an Ocala man is pleading for help getting her back to Florida. “The last three months has been pure hell to be realistic.
I’m going through a lot,” Joseph Castro said. Castro's wife, Cecelia Tapia, traveled to Lima, Peru in February to help her grieving brother after the loss of a family member.
Now she says she can't get back. “Nobody calls ... nobody does anything ... no help, it’s no help. [the U.S. Embassy] told me it’s closed - nobody can help me,” said Tapia.
Tapia said she and her husband tried reaching out to the U.S. Embassy several times with no luck. Her original flight back was canceled. “I was in the hotel for two months and then I couldn’t pay anymore,” Tapia said.