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El Salvador: Highest Murder Rate in Latin America

Written byDavid Sasaki
Posted 17 January 2006 19 years ago

Tim points to a new report by Prensa Grafica which lists El Salvador as having the highest murder rate in Latin America.

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  • Calvin

    Well I don’t know where you got all this stastistic, and I know for a fact that Honduras has the highest crime rates in the world! Oh and where can I find a accurate stastistic because this is not a stastistic for 2007 is a stastistic for 2005. Meaning that El Salvador is not the highest at this point of time, It may have been the highest back in 2005 but a lot of stastistic says Colombia is the highest; and you are sitting here saying El Salvador is the highest! Sorry but this is not accurate, and yes their is crime mostly gang killing other gangs..

    22 April 2008, 14:37 pm
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