Logan and the team went through a number of stop points with armed men but in the end, all Luis had to was squeeze a couple of hundreds and they were on their journey once more. Either El Macho didn't give a f**k if they did go rescue Heather or this was an open invitation.
Either way he was thankful that they weren't stopped, he wouldn't have had the time to get searched and he would have put a bullet in an unfortunate soul.
They were all there on their own. No backing up from the US government and it would have been suicidal to ask for the Venezuelan government for backing. He wanted a clean taking of Heather and Jade and once he knew they were safe, every other person there would go down. But first! Heather and Jade.
After a few more hundred stops and hours of looking at the slum
