Honduras, Venezuela have world's highest murder rates: U.N.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/us-latam-crime-idUSBREA390IY20140410

(Reuters) - Honduras retains the world's highest murder rate, according to a United Nations report published on Thursday, with the Americas overtaking Africa as the region with the most peacetime murders per 100,000 people.

Torn apart by gang warfare and invaded by Mexican drug cartels, the Central American nation of Honduras had a 2012 murder rate of 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people, almost double Venezuela's rate of 53.7.

According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime's report, Central America fared particularly badly. Belize had a murder rate of 44.7, while El Salvador's was 41.2 per 100,000.

In a previous report in 2011, Honduras topped the list, with El Salvador in second place and Venezuela in third.

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Both Venezuela and Honduras are currently using the military to fight crime but apparently without much success. Here is story on Maduro sending in the military and JL posted a story on Honduras already.


Venezuela's Maduro sends military to fight crime in Caracas streets

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/us-venezuela-crime-idUSBRE94D01120130514