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Hey Man, I've been in Guate for 2 days now. I'm staying in the SE part of the city which is the wealthy area and thing seem pretty nice here. But, that said the guards at the Taco Bell in the club district are packing semiautomatic pistols and parking lot guards at the hotels tend to have shotguns. Which, tend to imply security is an issue or at least taken seriously. But, I don't think that's anything new either. For the border/immigration stuff while there seems to be a bump lately, but I don't know if it's a true explosion or just a media thing. Mexican and Central American kids have been crossing the border in large numbers for decades. For the drug war situation is that in Mexico it's got better this last year and generally been pushed out of most of the major cities, except for along the border, and specific drug trafficking routes. But, that doesn't mean the stuff isn't still going on out in the country side. As for Central America, yeah El Salvador has always been bad, but in the last few years violence in Honduras has sky rocketed, which also splashes into the surrounding countries. But, the Guatemalan refugees aren't coming from the Capitol or major cities. They are all fleeing from the little border villages and mountain towns the cartels decide to take over as part of their trafficking routes. The crazy thing is the safest country to live in of all the ones involved? Columbia. They actually managed to 'win' their drug war AKA Kill all the Narcos who chose violence over business, make the cartels police themselves (nothing pays better than the drugs so get them to frown on other crimes), and keep collateral damage away from regular people. The drugs are going to flow, it's just a matter of how and who gets hurt along the way.

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