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Latin America has the worst homicide and abuse stats in children and teenagers
Latin America and the Caribbean have the largest share of homicides among children and adolescents in the world, revealed a UNICEF report released yesterday. According to the study, in 2012 alone, “more than 25,000 homicide victims in the region were below the age of 20 — representing about one quarter of all homicide victims worldwide.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe horrible, unvarnished truth of the reality of Lat Am.
Sep 06th, 2014 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0A potential paradise poisioned by its own population.
Let's see the trolls defend this. Or will they somehow try to blame 'the West'?
Personally I feel Catholicism and the cult of the Caudillo lie at the heart of this problem.
They need dragging into C21st pronto!
With China taking over Latam, they will have their way to address this......put them all to work in slave labor camps.
Sep 06th, 2014 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0well ilsen, generalization here is a bit unfair.... because few countries like mexico, colombia, venezuela, brazil, honduras and many other central american nations pull down the average of the continent with rates between 40 to 100 homicides per 100k. Chile has a rate of circa 2 homicide per 100k, which actually equals the 2 per 100k of Finland and even better than the 5 per 100k of Estonia, an almost scandinavic nation I would call a dangerous place to be.
Sep 06th, 2014 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 manrod
Sep 06th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fair comment. I completely over generalised. Venezuela has a rate of about 75 per 100k. Roughly 24000 violent deaths per year. Enough bloodshed for a small war.
As I have family there I occasionally get a bit upset. I take back what I said about 'all Lat Am'.
Chile is a shining example to some other nations in the region. Colombia has made huge steps forward considering the civil war of recent history.
The combination of drugs and guns in the hands of young people.
Sep 06th, 2014 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Life is cheap (in the slums)”.
I have seen the head shot at the traffic lights and the young guy ride away on the pillion as if it were nothing. To him it was nothing.
I acquired a weapon.
@5
Sep 07th, 2014 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Be there or be square...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/04/north-london-beheading_n_5765736.html
Sep 07th, 2014 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“A local resident described seeing a man brandishing a machete and shouting about cats.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/04/north-london-beheading_n_5765736.html
'With less than two weeks to go before the Sept. 18 vote, the poll put the “Yes” to independence campaign on 51 percent against “no” camp on 49 percent, overturning a 22-point lead for the unionist campaign in just a month, the Sunday Times said.”
I'd suggest to the Brits to worry a wee bit more about their own little island paradise instead of the hellhole of Latin America.
Nero fiddled while London burned...
Britain has a homicide rate of 1-2 per 100,000 population.
Sep 07th, 2014 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The USA has a homicide rate of 2-5 per 100,000 population
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Below, are the 5 highest homicide rates in the world - all in “the Hellhole ” of South America.
Guatemala 39.1 per 100k
El Salvador 41.2 per 100k
Belize 44.7 per 100k
Venezuela 53.7 per 100k (2012)
Honduras 90.4 per 100k
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
@7
Sep 07th, 2014 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another totally irrelevant comment. Why don't you talk about Japan or Malaysia. The article has no bearing on those either. You should be glad someone cares about your continent. You obviously don't.
@1 Yes I think you are correct.
Sep 07th, 2014 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The church avocating to breed like rats and don't use contraception in order to swell their ranks.
The result is if you have enough hungry rats in a box they eventually start eating each other.
I too have witnessed murders in Guatemala and now have a well armed household.
I don't want anyone to care about me.
Sep 07th, 2014 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No one does you lucky boy you.
Sep 07th, 2014 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you. I don't feel so tight on the neck now.
Sep 07th, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Haha! Wonder how you will feel when the Chinese Economic Noose starts tightening around your isolationist neck?
Sep 07th, 2014 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well China isn't Europe or the USA. They have a conscience. However, it would be wise to be ready for plan C and kick them out too when they want their money back.
Sep 07th, 2014 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 015 Nostrils
Sep 07th, 2014 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ China has a conscience ”
LOL !!
Ironic statement of the month!!!
@1 Ilsen
Sep 07th, 2014 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your comment on Catholicism is quite relevant. Just look at the new world countries where the Jesuits got their claws into...all have serious social problems... But the fact that South America has the highest murder rates in the world, is also linked to the “macho” man sindrome, which means 'brawn over brain'. Brazil may not be listed in the top 5 , as far as violent deaths per 100k goes, but they are close, over 56,000 deaths in 2012, or 29 per 100k. Nothing to be proud of.
@15, so you think the Chinese have a conscience ?? that's a good one.... I worked 15 years for them, and one thing they don't have, is a conscience...they couldn't give a damn about you. They just 'use' you, and when the time comes, they'll want their pound of flesh...wait to see. And if you think you can just 'kick them out', that'll be the day.....Argieland will be invaded by China.
8 Troy Tempest
Sep 07th, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Below, are the 5 highest homicide rates in the world - all in “the Hellhole ” of South America”
Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador are not in South America.
@17
Sep 07th, 2014 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do Europeans have a conscience? Please open a history book and using the last 500 years (only) as evidence, prove it.
18 Marcos
Sep 07th, 2014 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Marcos, you are correct.
To properly quote “Nostrils” @7,
- “ the hellhole of Latin America”
Thanks for drawing attention to that.
Do you think perchance, it's a cultural thing?
@20
Sep 07th, 2014 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's see.
Europe: Hellhole for TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
South America: Hellhole (with high homicide rates), only in the last 10-15 years.
2000 years of a proven track record of murder, wars, genocide, religious persecution, pirating, raiding, disease spreading, forced colonization, conquest... vs 15 years of an unfortunate cycle of high crime.
Yes, definitely a cultural thing, the Barbaric culture of the EUROPEAN.
20 Troy Tempest
Sep 07th, 2014 - 11:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're welcome.
You ask: “Do you think perchance, it's a cultural thing?”
Indeed, many Americans, British and Canadians don't know much about geography and history.
And they are actually proud of not being able to accurately point at any other country on a map. They actually brag about it.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0They are truly bizarre ignorant creatures.
“Indeed, many Americans, British and Canadians don't know much about geography and history.”
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, you're right that we have for decades avoided these lawless places that are set on murdering their own working poor.
It's very alien to us, but you seem to defend it, as unremarkable.
How could we understand such societies, in the context of the Modern World?
How can it be so alien when you allow your working poor to murder each other on a mass scale?
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your Murder Rate is 20x ours.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 02:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Explain that please.
Feel free to use my figures or refer back to the article.
On a “mass scale”?
Sep 08th, 2014 - 02:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0How many per 100K are we talking about? The UK I thought was 1-2/100K. The US was 2-5/100k.
There is no genocide in those figures I don't think.
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Sep 08th, 2014 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 024 Troy Tempest
Sep 08th, 2014 - 03:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0You ask: “How could we understand such societies, in the context of the Modern World?”
We can't Troy, look for example in the year 2014 an European Queen still reigns in Canada.
29
Sep 08th, 2014 - 04:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0our Queen is not murdering our people - yours is stealing from them
Looks like quite a debate kicked off. I really enjoyed trolley boy trying to conflate Indian and Guyanese and Pacific Islands (unspecified) crime figures with UK ones?
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hysterical!
No, not funny, he is getting hysterical. What a bizarre concept to advance.
to #31
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0#28 is perhaps one of the most utterly stupid comments I've ever heard. This level of stupidity could only be surpassed if what they said is actually true about the definition of “anglo” in Argentina.
Also #28 the homicide rate in South America is 22.6, not much below that of Central America (26.5), and well above that of “Anglo” [sic] North America (4.2).
What is undeniable is that the homicide rate (per 100,000 people) in the World (6.2), the Americas (16.3), South America (22.6), and Argentina (5.5) is well above the UK (1.0).
@31
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why are you ashamed of your Anglo brethren? Guyana certainly is not South America, no self-respecting South American considers it part of the region and you know it. Lawless, crime ridden, and British.
Same with Jamaica and the other Caribbean islands. They are anglo and those people feel far more at home in London, Johannesburg or Boston than Buenos Aires or Mexico City.
The Anglosphere murder rate is quite embarrassing.
#33
Sep 08th, 2014 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Guyana certainly is not South America” I think you're mistaking South America with Latin America. But anyway, Guyana's homicide rate (17.0 per 100,000) is smaller than that of its Latin American Neighbours Venezuela (53.7) and Brazil (25.2) so spare us your “Anglo” bullshit.
Face it, those countries with large numbers of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian decedents (i.e. most of South and Central America) are about the most violent societies on Earth today. Those with mostly “Anglo” decedents (Australia, Canada, NZ, US, Ireland, UK) have a much lower homicide rate.
You are clearly a fool, but also a coward.
@19 4ntrolley
Sep 08th, 2014 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Do Europeans have a conscience? Please open a history book and using the last 500 years (only) as evidence, prove it“...
Why do you want to back 500 years, or more ? the discussion refers to present day reality, not the 1500's...the world then was a different place, where having a 'conscience' didn't get you very far.....I presume that in your classification ”Europeans”, you include the Spaniards - from whom you probably descend - who are not exactly well known for treating the South and Central American indigenous people with dignity, or with a 'conscience'.
@33, Sorry to inform you, but last time I looked, Guyana is still in South America, tucked in between VZ and Suriname...unless of course, your brilliant brain has the power to shift Guyana to another location. When is the new world map being published ?
You can't change the facts because you don't like them.
Statistics; but where are the answers.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Solution to heinous crime ? zero tolerance and eventually, in some cases, the death penalty ....even if the criminals are slow in understanding what it means, it won't matter....
Sep 08th, 2014 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However, with the Human-Rights activists only interested in the well-being of the criminals, don't think that will be happening anytime soon....Or perhaps, after a few politicians and/or their family members fall victim to such crimes, will they feel the urge to do something more effective to reduce crime.
Can somebody straighten me out on something.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0I've seen lots of people from Jamaica in my time. Do they look Anglo/caucasian to anybody? I'm missing something I think.
I don't get 4control at all, but I guess I'm just a moron, like he says.
Who'd have thought Jamaicans were considered white!
28 and 29 ,
Sep 09th, 2014 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0cut the crap you pair of twits.
Marcos,
Anglo hater and Monarchy hater, you're way off topic.
I merely misquoted his remark @7,
“hellhole of Latin America”
to read “South” America - same cultures and societal roots, just next door.
2 killings per 100,000 in UK
or
the 'Latin Lovers' of Venezuela, with 53.7 killings per 100,000 (2012) ??
Hmmm, only idiots would try to, or want to, defend that society.
Venezuela will probably surpass those figures this year.
#33 #29
Sep 09th, 2014 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Gone quiet have you? Could that be because we destroyed your argument?
There was no argument to destroy, only idiocy. You can't change the facts just because you don't like them.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0The article is quite clear about the sad, desperate facts of life for young Latin Americans.
Now the idiots have slunk off after adding nothing positive or insightful, just shows what a waste of time they are.
@38 bushpilot
Sep 09th, 2014 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Who'd have thought Jamaicans were considered white!”
good observation...but look on the bright side (excuse the pun), we can now say that the fastest man on Earth is caucasian (Usain Bolt)....
Yay for Anglos!
Sep 10th, 2014 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0(Where ever they may be!)
Heehee!
According to trolley boy I expect they mostly live in China now!
Hahaha!
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