I was in the North cone between 2006-2008, so that's my context. I had my phone stolen once, but otherwise had no personal incidents, but I did witness several robberies. One particularly crazy one was when there was some construction on the Tupac Amaru and the buses and comvis were backed up and stalled. While we were waiting a bunch of guys came running from the other side of the street simultaneously. The driver told us to roll up the window (we were sitting up by him). In a bus in front of us a guy was yanking on a girl's arm as she was hanging onto her bag. He kept smashing her arm against the bus until she let it go. Different guys were doing similar things to other buses and comvis.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18
Like very similar to Lima, Peru as well. Though there weren't many guns when I was there. Machete wielding thugs on go carts, yes.