The Cancun airport has a visitor that has no intention of leaving any time soon. According to reports, there is a woman living in the airport after flying in from the United States on June 30.
The woman, 45-year-old Marcela Silvia Montano Mancera, has been spotted wandering around the terminals, washing in the restrooms, sleeping on the floor and withdrawing money from an ATM to sustain herself at airport restaurants. Since the woman has not committed a federal crime, according to authorities, she legally cannot be arrested.
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"She looks like a regular passenger at first glance, people don't look at her, but we have seen her every day ... we are not doctors, but it's obvious that she has problems, some of my co-workers tried to speak with her, but at times it seems as if she loses it," an airline worker told News Corp Australia.
While the woman living at the airport has not caused trouble, she has been spotted talking to herself in both Spanish and English. The woman, a Mexican citizen, is carrying a Mexican passport and is said to have been born in the Federal District on May 2, 1968.
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Authorities have tried to locate the woman's family but have not had any luck in that endeavor.
Many people have noted that the woman's actions mimic those from the film "The Terminal" where Tom Hanks plays an immigrant who is denied entry into the United States but also cannot return to his native country due to a revolution. As result, the man is forced to live in an airport. The film was inspired partially by Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris from August 26 1988 to July 2006. Nasseri claimed that he obtained refugee status and went to England, but was mugged and lost his documentation. He lived in the airport until he was hospitalized for a health condition.
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