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Lucky we have good hands...descendent of Conquistadors are suffering from street violence and murder
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Globally, murder rates dropped dramatically during the Covid-19 pandemic, but as the world emerged from lockdown, the number of people being deliberately killed began to climb again, especially in the Americas, which remains the world’s hotspot for homicide.
Brazil is the most murderous country on the planet in terms of absolute numbers (40,800 in 2022), but Jamaica is the country with the highest rate per capita (52.9 per 100,000 people) and the homicide contagion is spreading. Even Caribbean islands like the Turks and Caicos, usually considered a tropical paradise, are reporting increased levels of violence.
Costa Rica, considered by far one of the most stable countries in the region, has also registered record murder levels in the last twelve months.
Brazil is the most murderous country on the planet in terms of absolute numbers (40,800 in 2022), but Jamaica is the country with the highest rate per capita (52.9 per 100,000 people) and the homicide contagion is spreading. Even Caribbean islands like the Turks and Caicos, usually considered a tropical paradise, are reporting increased levels of violence.
Costa Rica, considered by far one of the most stable countries in the region, has also registered record murder levels in the last twelve months.
The Telegraph
Diary of a teenage assassin: ‘I murdered 30 people – I became addicted’
Mathew Charles
Sun, 7 January 2024 at 8:00 pm SGT
Homicide rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. Gang warfare is largely to blame
Homicide rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. Gang warfare is largely to blame
Twelve-year-old Andrés Camilo Romaña had spent most of his young life collecting rubbish in the poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of Quibdó in Colombia’s Pacific coastal region of Chocó.
He did not like school because he was frequently bullied. Instead, he preferred to endure the unrelenting humidity of the city, roaming its streets and sifting through bins for anything of value.
“He was a good boy. He worked hard,” his mother, Jacinta Romaña, told The Telegraph. “He was never tempted by the easy money of gangs and violence.”
Andrés and his mother lived off recycling whatever he could collect with nothing more than rice and eggs to eat most days. His mother says Andrés was a quiet boy with dreams of one day living in Canada. He wanted to see the snow and feel the cold against his skin, but in April, 2021, he was hacked to death by a group of teenagers.
Andrés and two of his friends, aged nine and 17, had crossed an invisible border marking gang turf. They were accused of carrying out intelligence for a rival group.
The three youngsters were subjected to a brutal attack by machete. The price for straying into enemy territory is murder.
“Andrés died from major injuries to his stomach,” Ms Romaña said. “They tore him open. He must have suffered so much.”
Bullets are seen on a street of Juan XXIII neighborhood in Buenaventura, Colombia, on February 5, 2021, where armed groups are fighting for the territory and have left 31 dead in more than 30 clashes this year
Spent bullet cartridges scattered in the street of a residential neighbourhood in Buenaventura, Colombia – the aftermath of gang clashes - LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty ImagesMore
Quibdó, like many of Latin America’s marginalised towns and cities, is plagued by organised crime and gangs, and it has become one of the most violent places on Earth. With a murder rate of 127 per 100,000 people, it comes second only to Tijuana in Mexico, according to global homicide rankings.
Statistics also show that more than half of Quibdo’s murder victims are under 30 years-old and that many of them are children.
It is not an isolated case. According to a recent study published by the Panamerican Health Organization, homicide is the leading cause of death among males between the ages of 10 and 24-years-old in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is also the second leading cause of death among females of the same age.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) concludes the majority of these murders are likely linked to gang violence. Murder has become Latin America’s enduring epidemic and experts say they know why.
“Violence persists across Latin America and the Caribbean because of high income and social inequality,” said Dr Robert Muggah, one of the world’s leading experts on homicide.
Diary of a teenage assassin: ‘I murdered 30 people – I became addicted’
Mathew Charles
Sun, 7 January 2024 at 8:00 pm SGT
Homicide rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. Gang warfare is largely to blame
Homicide rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. Gang warfare is largely to blame
Twelve-year-old Andrés Camilo Romaña had spent most of his young life collecting rubbish in the poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of Quibdó in Colombia’s Pacific coastal region of Chocó.
He did not like school because he was frequently bullied. Instead, he preferred to endure the unrelenting humidity of the city, roaming its streets and sifting through bins for anything of value.
“He was a good boy. He worked hard,” his mother, Jacinta Romaña, told The Telegraph. “He was never tempted by the easy money of gangs and violence.”
Andrés and his mother lived off recycling whatever he could collect with nothing more than rice and eggs to eat most days. His mother says Andrés was a quiet boy with dreams of one day living in Canada. He wanted to see the snow and feel the cold against his skin, but in April, 2021, he was hacked to death by a group of teenagers.
Andrés and two of his friends, aged nine and 17, had crossed an invisible border marking gang turf. They were accused of carrying out intelligence for a rival group.
The three youngsters were subjected to a brutal attack by machete. The price for straying into enemy territory is murder.
“Andrés died from major injuries to his stomach,” Ms Romaña said. “They tore him open. He must have suffered so much.”
Bullets are seen on a street of Juan XXIII neighborhood in Buenaventura, Colombia, on February 5, 2021, where armed groups are fighting for the territory and have left 31 dead in more than 30 clashes this year
Spent bullet cartridges scattered in the street of a residential neighbourhood in Buenaventura, Colombia – the aftermath of gang clashes - LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty ImagesMore
Quibdó, like many of Latin America’s marginalised towns and cities, is plagued by organised crime and gangs, and it has become one of the most violent places on Earth. With a murder rate of 127 per 100,000 people, it comes second only to Tijuana in Mexico, according to global homicide rankings.
Statistics also show that more than half of Quibdo’s murder victims are under 30 years-old and that many of them are children.
It is not an isolated case. According to a recent study published by the Panamerican Health Organization, homicide is the leading cause of death among males between the ages of 10 and 24-years-old in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is also the second leading cause of death among females of the same age.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) concludes the majority of these murders are likely linked to gang violence. Murder has become Latin America’s enduring epidemic and experts say they know why.
“Violence persists across Latin America and the Caribbean because of high income and social inequality,” said Dr Robert Muggah, one of the world’s leading experts on homicide.
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