MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

South American cities with serious personal safety problems

South American cities do not rank favorably with Mercer's highest personal safety ranking based on internal stability, crime, effectiveness of law enforcement and relationships with other countries.

According to the region's ranking Asunción, Paraguay, is in position 103, followed by Santiago de Chile, 110; Montevideo, 115; Brasilia, 131; Lima and Quito, 132 and Buenos Aires, 134. This means Brazilian cities such as Sao Paulo, Rio do Janeiro, Bahia, Bogota the capital of Colombia and Caracas, Venezuela's capital are even more dangerous for personal safety. According to Ayarí Jiménez, from Mercer México, while personal safety within Canadian cities ranks among the highest in the Americas, "in contrast many of the Latin American cities such as Caracas, Bogotá or Port au Prince continue to be undermined by crime and political and economic turmoil. Traffic congestion and pollution have also had an impact".