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Only in El Salvador! That's the one country, I will not go to. (I've been living in Mexico and Guatemala the last 2 years)

Panama City, is basically the US. Very modern, safe, and hell they even use the US dollar.

Nicaragua is ok and similar to Guatamala.

> Panama City, is basically the US. Very modern, safe, and hell they even use the US dollar.

I've spent time in the US, Colombia and Panama City. 'safe' would not be the first word that springs to mind, neither would be very modern. Definitely doable but 'basically the US' is sugarcoating it to a degree that does not match my experience there.

I used to work with a guy from El Salvador. Great fellow, liked to talk about how he walked to the US back in the 70's, and the difficulties and little victories he had along the way.

He misses a lot of it, but told me straight up not to go there. The sadness in his eyes when he said I shouldn't visit his home country is something I will not forget.

Costa Rica would work (I think some people have done it). Panama might work.

funny how all those places were 'liberated' by the CIA