I've traveled and lived in various parts of Central and South America. I swear I meet the craziest mfs on solo travels and one common denominator with all them, they RARELY are able speak Spanish. I recommend watching an episode of locked up abroad about that guy who was adopted but wanted to visit Colombia where his birth parents were originally from. Dude was crazy. He wanted to hike through the jungles that at the time were heavily occupied by the FARC. Needless to say, he was captured.
Moral of the story, everything is good until that one day shit hits the fan. This guy even admitted how naïve he was and how disconnected he was from the real consequences. I'm all for going outside my comfort zone, meeting fine women and testing the boundaries sometimes, but in these countries trouble can always be around the corner. Your belief in your ability to constantly evade theses situations is just pure ignorance if you keep pressing your luck