These are the latests figures from Insight Crime.
https://insightcrime.org/news/insigh...cide-round-up/
Things I noticed.
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Puerto Rico has improved a lot. I'm impressed.
- There is no data for
Haiti, but judging by the news reports of the gangs situation (Barbecue anyone?) and what many Haitians in the DR say about how they felt in Haiti, I bet if data was possible to collect Haiti would be higher. Couple that with
Turks and Caicos (surprises me to see it this bad) and, basically, the DR is surrounded by places with higher homicide rates in all directions. Puerto Rico is the safest, something I wouldn't had said a few years ago.
-
Jamaica... By itself is most of the English Caribbean in land area and population.
- I'm shocked by
Saint Lucia and
Saint Vincent. Never thought they were up there. Already knew things were not peachy in
Trinidad & Tobago, so no surprises there.
Bahamas is shocking while
Barbados is the light in that part of the Caribbean. It would be interesting to see how the French islands (
Guadeloupe,
Martinique,
St Barts, etc) stack up.
- On the continent mainland, the improvements of
El Salvador is remarkable. People can criticize Bukele for many things, but reducing the murder rate by going after the Salvadoran gangs isn't one of them. A few countries could use their own Bukele for a few years.
- I'm surprised not that things are horrible in
Venezuela regarding homicides, but rather that they still get stats from them.
- I heard for sometime that things in
Ecuador have been going downhill and I'm afraid the stats seen there are part of a upward trend in that country. I have also heard similar things of
Peru, but there are no stats to verify.
- I'm surprised by
Brazil. I thought it would be higher. Must be part of a downward trend. If so, keep going in that direction.
-
Mexico may be on the somewhat high side, but certain media in the USA makes it seem Venezuela is nothing compared to Mexico. The sky isn't falling folks.
- The Latin American countries with the least homicides are El Salvador,
Suriname,
Paraguay,
Nicaragua and
Chile.
- No data for
Bolivia and
Argentina.
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