URGENT: Safety in Guatemala- Should I cancel trip?

Urgent; is it safe to travel from LAX to union station at 1 am?
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Well I only go by what is printed in our local paper. The paper says that the FBI says we are number three. We have lots of murders here plus a lot of street assaults and shootings but those are mostly gang related. I have lived here for years and only had a gun shoved in my face once.

The link which I took down because it didn't work, was from Yahoo with the latest FBI top 10 list and New Haven wasn't on it, better tell your local paper to check for updates before they print misinformation.

I just want to know the name of the "e" service that "USA diplomats" use. Maybe the Lewis and Clark Express? :)

nervous nellies stay home.

I was there last week for a month. i thought it was fine. you can read about it below if your intrested

http://bondrj.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?from=20150210

https://www.internationalsos.com/en/travel-security-management.htm
Then, when necessary, we can dedicate virtual and on-the-ground resources to support the incident response in adherence with your operations protocol.
Shoot first...ask questions later.
Vacations with confidence is our motto.

I live south of Eugene OR and got pulled over at gun point by a cop who wrote the speeding ticket for 84MPH I kept trying to tell him cruise control was locked in at 70 so I was slightly speeding, but he was tweaking so not interested. Court Judge determined my husband and I are both liars and the cop is truthful 1st ticket in over 30 years. Another cop from Eugene OR was fired after more than 380 complaints for rape or sexual assault. Fired not charged. So if you want to look at lawless and corrupt I thing the USSA gets high marks. Getting away with murder in the USA no problem f you have the cash otherwise read up on the corruption of the FBI forensic lab and all the innocent people sitting in jail based on false "science". If I were charged with anything I don't think I would want to stick around for trial as it is so corrupt. A women was raped in Eugene in a park last week, a woman starved her infant to death forgot to feed it and a young man killed his infant and then himself. Guatemala is dangerous?

My husband and I have bused and driven all over the country we were out in non tourist areas where people were looking at me and I finally decided I was a white woman kind of a rare thing in Rabbinal. A smile and a wave always did the trick. Driving the back roads we were stopped by road construction and a car load of young men hung with us so I could practice speaking Spanish. They told us about the area, things to see and waited for us to make it through the fresh cut dirt on the road in case we needed them to help push our car. I love the Guatemalan people and have never felt afraid.

The wonderful people will give you gifts of what they have to share. A local cuisine of beef, potato and chili wrapped in banana leaves, a local pot leaf cream for my swollen knee. They are truly amazing. Funny thing new friends always warn us, don't tell people where you are going, be careful etc. A young man we were speaking with a friend of friends was unknown to the people of the little town we were staying in and they warned us they did not know him, to be careful. Bad things happen everywhere, I'd rather die out exploring than live to 120 hiding at home. I wish I were there now, but will be returning to Guatemala mid April.

Good perspective...thanks.

Bevcause of the civil war and the tons of weapons left by the army and guerillas everywhere in the country, Guatemala is a dangerous country but those who suffer from this situation are the local people not the tourists.
Private and public guards protect the tourists (and not the loclas) all around the country.

#48, I believe the fiction branch is that way ----->