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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Two Of The World's 20 Most Violent Cities Are In America

Out of the world's 50 most violent cities, 41 are in Latin America including 21 in Brazil. As Statista's Nial McCarthy write, The Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security releases its findings on the homicide rate in cities with populations over 300,000 every year.

The infographic below shows the world's top 20 cities, with Caracas, in the socialist utopia Venezuela, in first place with 119.87 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2015.

San Pedro Sula, Honduras (111.03 homicides per 100,000) came second with San Salvador, El Salvador (108.54 homicides per 100,000) rounding off the top three. The majority of the violence in Latin America can be attributed to drug trafficking, gang warfare and political instability.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

O'Malley and the current Administration should be proud of their accomplishments. At least they were successful at something.

Anonymous said...

Did the White House say something about their isnt much violence in other country's compared to ours?

Anonymous said...

That number should grow quickly and significantly with the amount of illegal immigrants coming from the south into the US.

Anonymous said...

Charm City.

Anonymous said...

Dalisbury ?

Anonymous said...

don't forget SRB has reached the epitome of US Mayoralty!