Poor
and middle-income nations of Latin America and the Caribbean are the
most homicide-prone countries in the world, according to an analysis of a
new United Nations
report on violence. And because of lax gun laws, it found, far more
homicides are committed with firearms in the Americas than in any other
part of the world.
The analysis of the Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014,
published last week by the Pan American Health Organization, reported
that the highest homicide rates were in Honduras, Venezuela, Jamaica and
Belize, with the Honduran rate — 104 killings per 100,000 population —
nearly double that of the next deadliest countries. By contrast, the
lowest homicide rates in the Americas were in Canada, Antigua and
Barbuda, and Chile. Canada’s was less than two per 100,000 population,
while others were below five. The homicide rate in the United States was
5.3 per 100,000.
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