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So far nothing's made me fear for my safety except my concerns about getting all the attention as the "wtf is this gringo with US plates doing here?". The protestors aren't targeting me.
But yeah I'm just looking to get my car out of the country ASAP at this point. In retrospect driving across to the Atlantic side, and then ignoring warnings about protests on May 10th was a bad move. But literally the only kind of protest that could have affected me is this - blockading one side of the country from the other. No one was predicting that.
The owner of the hotel I'm at says I should have gone up to the front and asked them to let me pass as an American. From every other gringo roadblock encounter I've ever read about, that wouldn't go anywhere, and would just draw a lot more attention to me. He also said I should call the US Embassy. So I emailed them tonight. We'll see what they say.
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