Our Homicide Epidemic
Our Homicide Epidemic
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Last weekend, nine people were murdered in Ciudad Bolivar, in southern Bogotá.
In the port city of Buenaventura more than 2,500 people have been forced from their homes recently by fighting between the bands Los Urabeños y La Empresa. Buenaventura is an important route for smuggling cocaine north toward the United States.
And in the town of Sincelejo on Bogotá's Caribbean coast the mayor just announced that the traditional correlejas will be canceled next year because the city doesn't have enough police to keep the event safe and also fight a crime wave across the city.
According to a new report by the United Nations Development Program, Latin America is suffering a violence epidemic.
'Most of the region's nations suffer violence rates considered epidemic by the World Health Organization,' the report says.
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