Central America is most crime-ridden region in world, U.N. report finds
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Central America has become the region with the highest levels of nonpolitical crime worldwide, with a murder rate of 33 per 100,000 inhabitants last year, three times the global average, according to a new report from the United Nationsthat also says crime threatens the region’s development.
The U.N. said:
Some 79,000 people have been murdered in the region over the past six years, but despite these heightened levels of violence, solving the problem of insecurity is possible within the framework of democracy, according to the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) Report on Human Development in Central America 2009-2010.
The full report is available here in Spanish.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City