Backpacker and Spanish language student Lola Daehler, from the U.S., jumps into the water as she decides to stay in Guatemala where feels safer to confront the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Pedro La Laguna, Solola, Guatemala March 27, 2020. Picture taken on March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
LAGO DE ATITLAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Some Americans, from young backpackers to retirees, are hunkering down for the coronavirus pandemic far from home in Latin America, saying they feel safer and see no point in scrambling to return.
While thousands of Americans sought help from the government or private security firms to evacuate, others chose to stay, worried about what they see as a skyrocketing U.S. caseload made worse by laxer containment measures.
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