Posted on 01/26/2016 11:49:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Latin America holds the undesirable distinction of having the most cities on the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security's annual ranking of the world's most violent cities.
Of the 50 cities on the list, 41 are in Latin America, including 21 in Brazil.
The lion's share of the elevated violence in the region is due to drug trafficking supplemented with gang wars, political instability, and the deregulation of economies triggering widespread poverty.
"Narcotics are the biggest black market earner of all. Estimated to be worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year, the global industry has pumped huge resources into criminal empires decade after decade," wrote Ioan Grillo the author of "Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America."
"So that amount of money, $100 billion a year, 10 years, a trillion dollars, 30 years, $3 trillion. That amount of money pumps in these organizations ... buying more guns, paying more assassins, bribing more police, bribing more politicians ... and that is why the region right now, Latin American and the Caribbean, are at a boiling point," Grillo told Business Insider.
The council's ranking contains cities with populations of more than 300,000 and does not count deaths in combat zones or cities with unavailable data, so some dangerous cities may not be represented on the list.
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New Orleans #32
Detroit #28
Baltimore #19
St. Louis #15
It’s kind of ironic that we S&P.end so much time and energy dealing with the threats of radical Islam, and yet a disproportionate number of the most dangerous cities in the world are in historically Catholic countries.
What do all these American cities have in common?
The only surprise is there are not at least a handful more in the US.
The Catholic countries are gang bangers killed each other.
The Muslims are trying to kill YOU and anyone who looks like you.
Hope that helps clear the issue up for you.
They must all be here in the U.S. . . . mass shootings never happen anywhere else, according to our pResident.
All these cities south of the border proves we need a wall
The post-War-on-Drugs regime, and it’s going to get much worse. Slavery!
Yet somehow Chicago still doesn’t make the list...
Guess why ?
Inexplicably now their crime numbers are mixed in with a nice suburb city 15 miles away.....HA
All of those have very strict gun laws.
New York will join them next year if Comrade DeBloodio has his way.
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