[arnoldoMuller]

If you count the number of people killed by wars in Europe or North America in the 20th century, Latin America is the place to be. Latin America has numerous social problems but the number of conflicts (and their magnitude) between countries has been traditionally very small.

[kls]

I am less concerned with being killed and more concerned with living under a dictatorship. I mean that would be the antithesis of the reasons I would move to Costa Rica in the first place. South America has hand it's share of them, and the disease that causes the symptom still exists.