Captainplaystation, exactly.
If you fly in or near the the ITCZ for long enough, sooner or later you are going to end up, where you shouldn't, or don't want to be. There can be many reasons for this.
The important point being, give yourself plenty of margin for this eventuality.
Culture
Properly trained crews anywhere can be as good or as bad as anywhere else. However if they are allowed to pressurized by corporate greed and face punishment by a culture of fear and intimidation, that is a recipe for disaster. This is especially so for inexperienced pilots who maybe allow themselves to be so pressured influencing incorrect decisions. This is where, a proper regulator (or lack of) that ensures this doesn't occur is the real problem, as I see it.