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Mexico is, in my experience, the best country in the Americas when it comes to hitching. Useful Spanish words are "raite" and "aventon", both meaning a lift. Near the Guatemalan border the word "jalon" is used. Also, in south, your rides will ask you about you immigration status and advise you of Control de Migracion check points.
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The Yucatan Penninsula, on the other hand, outshines all Mexico for its ease and amiability of hitchhiking. You might not even fall victim to Moctezuma revenge eating old papaya slushies and bean burritos out of the trash in some of those tourist strips. Hey!
In 10 months and tens of thousands of km covered by thumb, my only "bad" experience was between Pto Angel and Oaxaca City (a notorious drug route, as I later learned). The driver asked me to drive and once I was behind the wheel informed me that the van was full of Colombia's finest. I nearly shat myself, but the experience turned out to be quite interesting, as we were forced to make several detours to avoid police checkpoints, taking me through beautiful and remote parts of the Oaxacan mountains I otherwise never would have discovered. Be careful not to get set up. A very, very, rare occurance, but one that can happen.
