Is it not true that the Canal district, especially Colon is extremely dangerous , with lots of crime and murder. Any where you live, what crime you are exposed to and potentially affected by is dependent on where you go, what time you go there, whom you hang with, ....etc. All I can say is with an uptick in the drug scene, THERE IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN INCREASE IN CRIME.
big Cities, Drugs, Poverty.
they are a Brotherhood which always sticks together, everywhere.
of course your basic is right, and accounts for every country of the Globe.
frequent the wrong places at the wrong time hanging out with the wrong company,
means you bring yourself in high danger.
that's the case at certain areas also in every 1st world mayor city,
heck, on the german countryside we have in small cities such problem zones todays, the places which been 100% save and fine when i grew up there, todays even the police patrols avoid the same areas in the middle of the night.
that goes for many areas in the DR, and even that i never visited Panama, i can imagine such to be the case for certain areas of their bigger cities, too.
and once a boom starts to populate former low density populated areas, all that negative waves comes in the wake of that "development".
i experienced exactly that in my good 20 years here in Punta Cana,
from a almost "empty" quiet countryside on the Oceanfront back in the earlier 90's,
to a hard to control large "Citylike" area without any control over the rise of population,
bringing all the bad shyt in it's Wake of "Development".
Mike
