Emergency First
GringoGuard is not an emergency service and does not file official reports automatically. If someone is in immediate danger, use local emergency services first: 123 in Colombia, 911 in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Paraguay, 190 in Brazil, 105 in Peru, 133 in Chile, 104 in Panama, 110 in Guatemala and Bolivia, then the local police, tourist police, prosecutor, or child-protection channel for formal routing.
City Safety Briefs
Start with the city brief before checking the live feed. Each page summarizes the traveler patterns, neighborhoods, and official routing most relevant to that city.
- Medellin travel safety: Medellin safety decisions often come down to neighborhood, transport choices, nightlife timing, and whether a report is backed by official or repeated public-source signals.
- Cartagena travel safety: Cartagena safety checks should focus on tourist-zone pressure, beach and island transfers, late-night transport, and whether a claim is official, repeated, or still under review.
- Bogota travel safety: Bogota safety guidance changes by zone and time of day, so visitors should compare current feed signals with transport plans, weather, protest advisories, and official notices.
- Cali travel safety: Cali visitors should treat district, timing, and transport planning as the main safety variables, then use the live feed to check whether public reports show a pattern.
- Santa Marta travel safety: Santa Marta safety planning should combine beach and tour logistics, late-night transport, weather conditions, and public reports from nearby traveler corridors.
- San Andres travel safety: San Andres travelers should verify beach, lodging, and tour logistics while tracking official weather and visitor-safety notices.
- Mexico City travel safety: Mexico City safety decisions shift by neighborhood, transport plan, nightlife timing, and whether a signal is official, repeated, or still under review.
- Cancun travel safety: Cancun safety checks should focus on resort-zone transport, beach and nightlife transitions, official advisories, and repeated tourist reports.
- Playa del Carmen travel safety: Playa del Carmen visitors should monitor nightlife, beach, and transport signals around tourist corridors before committing to late movement.
- Tulum travel safety: Tulum safety planning should combine late-night transport, beach-road logistics, event context, and official advisories before visitors move between zones.
- Santo Domingo travel safety: Santo Domingo safety checks should focus on nightlife, transport, dating-app meetups, and whether a report is official, repeated, or still under review.
- Punta Cana travel safety: Punta Cana visitors should verify resort, excursion, nightlife, and transport handoffs while keeping POLITUR and emergency routing visible.
- Puerto Plata travel safety: Puerto Plata safety planning should combine beach, excursion, cruise, and transport signals before visitors move outside controlled corridors.
- Rio de Janeiro travel safety: Rio de Janeiro safety decisions turn on beach-day habits, phone visibility, late-night transport, and which neighborhoods and favela tours are operating normally right now.
- Sao Paulo travel safety: Sao Paulo visitors should plan transport door to door, keep phones out of sight near traffic, and check current signals before moving between districts at night.
- Salvador travel safety: Salvador safety planning centers on the historic center after dark, beach and festival crowds, and keeping transport under your control between neighborhoods.
- Florianopolis travel safety: Florianopolis is one of Brazil's calmer destinations, so checks focus on beach theft, rental-car break-ins, and getting home safely from beach clubs.
- Lima travel safety: Lima safety decisions depend on district, taxi choice, and time of day; most visitors stay in Miraflores and Barranco, where phone theft and taxi scams are the main issues.
- Cusco travel safety: Cusco safety planning is about altitude, tour-operator reliability, late-night taxis, and road or rail disruptions on the way to Machu Picchu.
- Buenos Aires travel safety: Buenos Aires safety checks focus on phone theft, distraction scams, cash and exchange risks, and which neighborhoods feel safe late at night.
- Mendoza travel safety: Mendoza visitors should focus on bike and wine-tour logistics, rental-car break-ins, and mountain weather before Andes day trips.
- San Jose travel safety: San Jose is mostly a transit stop for visitors, so checks focus on bag theft downtown, car break-ins, and getting between the airport and bus terminals safely.
- Tamarindo travel safety: Tamarindo safety checks focus on beach and rental theft, nightlife transport, and rip currents more than violent crime.
- Santiago travel safety: Santiago safety checks focus on phone and bag theft in central districts, protest-related disruptions, and how you move between neighborhoods at night.
- Valparaiso travel safety: Valparaiso's hills are a highlight by day, but camera theft and empty stairways after dark are the main concerns, so plan routes before you climb.
- Quito travel safety: Quito safety planning is about the historic center after dark, taxi choice, and checking current security notices, which have shifted quickly in Ecuador in recent years.
- Guayaquil travel safety: Guayaquil has had serious security problems, so visitors should limit movement to planned routes, use trusted transport, and watch official notices closely.
- Panama City travel safety: Panama City visitors should focus on taxi choice, the edges of Casco Viejo after dark, and phone theft in busy areas.
- Bocas del Toro travel safety: Bocas del Toro safety planning is about water-taxi logistics, party-night transport, and theft from hostels and beaches.
- Antigua Guatemala travel safety: Antigua Guatemala is the main visitor base in the country, so checks focus on volcano-hike safety, shuttle reliability, and quiet streets late at night.
- Guatemala City travel safety: Guatemala City is mostly an arrival point for visitors, so plan door-to-door transport and stay in Zona 10, 13, or 14 if you stay over.
- La Paz travel safety: La Paz safety planning combines altitude, fake-police and taxi scams, and road blockades that can strand travelers between cities.
- Montevideo travel safety: Montevideo is relatively calm for a capital, so checks focus on bag snatching in Ciudad Vieja after dark and phone theft along the Rambla.
- Punta del Este travel safety: Punta del Este peaks in summer, when beach theft, nightlife transport, and rental break-ins are the main visitor concerns.
- Asuncion travel safety: Asuncion visitors should focus on phone theft from motorbikes, taxi choice at night, and staying in central and Villa Morra areas after dark.
Official Advisories
Compare local signals with U.S., Canadian, and U.K. government advisory pages before making formal travel decisions.
Open LATAM travel advisories
Public Claims Policy
Public pages prioritize patterns: city, approximate zone, method, venue/app, date range, and redacted narratives. Names, faces, private handles, exact addresses, room numbers, IDs, and victim-identifying details stay locked until human review.
Child Safety Protocol
Content involving minors is never fast-published. Sexualized minor material must not be uploaded to the public app. Operators preserve evidence lawfully, restrict access, and route child-safety reports through human review, legal escalation, and applicable authority-reporting workflows.
Moderation SLA
- Severe reports enter human review immediately.
- Appeal/removal requests require audit-log review before action.
- Official-source-backed posts must cite public authority sources.
- AI decisions cannot publicly accuse a person without human approval.