What's the standard police/ speeding ticket bribe these days?

Foe a ticket,they normally tell you its going to cost 3-60 dollars,but in the end i never give them more than 100 cords<5.00>

I've only paid a mordida once. I paid 20 cordobas. I've seen people pay from 20 to 50 cords. The good news is that I was only asked for a bribe once in 4 years.

I talk my way out of every infraction. Once I was pregnant so that worked. Next time my US friend was visiting and her child was asleep in the back of the car, but looked like he was sick so I said he was, and that worked. Another time I was talking on the phone and pleaded ignorance to the law, that worked. Recently I was stopped on my birthday and ended up crying (for various reasons) and being pissed off at the same time. I think I freaked them out...but it worked.

The one time they took away my license was when I didn't stop when asked to pull over. I deserved that one. I think the fine was something like 500 cords and it took a little longer than a month to get the license back.

The main thing is to be respectful of the officers. I'm a gringa and my Spanish is okay.

Remember, the officers aren't stupid. They know what a US license looks like because they see a lot of them. It's the foreign ones, like the Dutch, that'll catch 'em off guard.

I even think is getting worse due to the economic situation, the price of gasoline, making everything go way more expensive for the popualtion to afford.

A police officer is never alone, there's always to guys working on the road so I think that a fair fee should be 150 cordobas, yes I said "fee" what else can it be call? a bribe? then you are BRIBER.... you don't want to be called like that, I think?

Get your license photocopied and then sealed in plastic and it will fool the majority of the police out there, and I like the State ID idea as well.

Not that I am condoning it, but the last time I got stopped for some bullshit reason I just argued with them. Said they were picking on us as gringos and not on other Nicarguans that were doing the exact same thing we were doing, and also that I was not a tourist but that I lived in Matagalpa. Probably because there was a chinita speaking Spanish at the wheel, a white man who didn't speak spanish riding shotgun, and a crazy argumentative gringa yelling at them in the back, they probably just thought, well you don't see this everyday....

I have been told the "standard bribe" is C$100. I have never paid anything. My "yes, I did something wrong and I understand you are going to take my license" with no indication that I understand the idea of a bribe seems to always get me a "ok, don't do it again" warning.

Amanda...what we do is just get a few florida I.D. cards and just give them to the cops they have always accepeted them as a drivers lic. And I also have never given them more than $5 U.S. But if they keep your i.d. who cares, you still have your fl. drivers lic.

It does sound pretty cynical but you can get out of a speeding ticket for a 100 cords.