Medics shuffle the other body carts, left then right then left again, lifting and rolling the plastic-wrapped corpses from one gurney to another to make room for the next body.
It is early in the afternoon at the Institute of Legal Medicine in El Salvador’s volatile capital city, on what will become one of the most violent days of the most violent year in the most violent nation in the Western Hemisphere.
Jeb needs to read this
A Mexican study January 19, 2015
50 most violent cities of 2014 with murder rates
1 171.2 San Pedro Sula Honduras
2 115.98 Caracas Venezuela
3 104.16 Acapulco Mexico
4 79.41 Joao Pessoa Brazil
5 77.65 Distritio Central Honduras
6 72.91 Maceio Brazil
7 71.08 Valencia Venezuela
8 66.55 Fortaleza Brazil
9 65.25 Cali Columbia
10 64.71 Sao Luis Brazil
11 63.68 Natal Brazil
12 62.13 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela
13 61.21 San Salvador El Salvador
14 60.00 Cape Town South Africa
15 57.00 Vitoria Brazil
16 56.46 Cuiaba Brazil
17 54.31 Salvador Brazil
18 53.06 Belem Brazil
19 49.93 St. Louis U.S.A.
20 49.49 Teresina Brazil
21 46.46 Barquisimeto Venezuela
22 44.87 Detroit U.S.A.
23 44.82 Goiania Brazil
24 42.17 Culiacan Mexico
25 41.90 Guatemala Guatemala
26 40.59 Kingston Jamaica
27 39.94 Juarez Mexico
28 39.61 New Orleans U.S.A.
29 39.05 Recife Brazil
30 37.97 Campina Grande Brazil
31 37.71 Obregon Mexico
32 37.66 Palmira Colombia
33 37.07 Manaus Brazil
34 34.92 Nuevo Laredo Mexico
35 34.89 Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa
36 34.68 Pereira Colombia
37 34.65 Porto Alegre
38 34.48 Durban South Africa
39 34.19 Aracaju Brazil
40 33.92 Baltimore U.S.A.
41 33.91 Victoria Mexico
42 33.39 Belo Horizonte Brazil
43 33.29 Chihuahua Mexico
44 31.48 Curitiba Brazil
45 29.90 Tijuana Mexico
46 28.87 Macapa Brazil
47 28.43 Cucuta Colombia
48 27.81 Torreon Mexico
49 26.91 Medellin Colombia
50 25.45 Cuernavaca Mexico
17 of the 50 are from Brazil. That is a cultural problem beyond local politics.