El Salvador and Venezuela top world homicide rate

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Murder rate circa 2004 per every 100,000 people.
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List of countries by homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants. The reliability of underlying national homicide rate data may
2000s
Country 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Most
recent
El Salvador<20> 37.3 34.6 31.1 32.7 41.0 54.9 55.3 55.3
Venezuela<12><27> 37 40 49 59 45 42 49 49
Jamaica<10> 34 44 40 36 54 58 49 49
Guatemala<22> 25.8 25.2 30.7 35.0 36.3 42.0 45.2 45.2
Honduras<19> 49.92 53.72 55.89 33.57 31.89 35.06 42.91 42.91
South Africa<18><28> 49.6 47.5 47.8 42.7 40.3 39.5 40.5 40.5
Colombia<29><30><31><17><32> 62.7 64.6 65.8 51.8 44.6 39.3 37.3 37.3

[struggle4progress]

1. Critics say Colombia's president manipulating statistics to make country appear safer

By Darcy Crowe
ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:36 p.m. February 17, 2007

BOGOTA, Colombia – Critics say President Alvaro Uribe's government is manipulating statistics to make Colombia appear safer, casting doubt on achievements that have made him popular both at home and with the U.S. government.

One of the leading critics is Cesar Caballero, who said he quit as director of the federal statistics office in 2004 because Uribe's office told him not to release a study that found sharply higher homicide rates in major Colombian cities ...

In his November speech, Burns also cited a sharp drop in the number of Colombians displaced by political violence. But the United Nations has said Uribe's administration is underestimating the internal refugee problem by more than a million people.

The government's figure – 1.9 million – counts only those who were forced to flee their homes by actual violence – not just threats. The U.N. says the real number is 3 million and that the number has risen since Uribe took office, basing its estimate on data compiled mostly by the Roman Catholic Church.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070217-1836-colombia-numbersgame.html

[Peace Patriot]

2. Venezuela Justice Minister says homicides decreased in '07 by 25%!

"Even though homicides in some states have increased in the past year, the Minister told the press Monday, the national total decreased from 763 to 573 over the course of 2007." --Justice Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/newsbrief/3401