United Nations report shows that Latin America racked up 134,519 homicides in 2012, about 31% of the total for that year, ... Latin America Is World's Most Violent Region. Share.

Latin America is home to just 8 percent of the world's population, but 33 percent of its homicides. In fact, just four countries in the region — Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela ...

The Wolfsonian–FIU charts global ambition in “ Plotting Power: Maps and the Modern Age, ” on view through April 16, 2023. Drawing from the Wolfsonian’s renowned collection of art and design, Plotting ...

For more than a century, Latin America has experienced a damaging combination of high inequality, poor economic performance and weak political institutions. This has contributed to persistent ...

The world homicide rate for men aged 15-29 is 16 per 100,000; in Latin America it is 60. Schools, where children are often recruited, must be the starting-point.

In 2013, the score for Latin America on control of corruption was on the percentile 57.2 in the world, according to the World Bank’s Governance Indicators. By 2021, it had fallen to 49.8.