May 2024 Recent findings from the Homicide Monitor demonstrate that Latin American and Caribbean cities exhibit persistently high homicide rates compared to other regions.   Cities are powerful indicators of the progress of nations. When cities prosper, so do the prospects of countries. When they…

Though I’ve been lucky to have been insulated from gun violence most of my life, it was at the core of the identity of my hometown, Washington, D.C.

Two young men are lying face down on the green forest floor. His friend, he says, is the one in the dark shirt, the one whose skull has been hacked open by a machete.

25/04/2018 by Amanda Erickson Originally published on the Washington Post   Friends of 13-year-old Maria Eduarda Alves da Conceicao — killed by stray bullets while in a gym class at her school — attend her funeral in Mesquita, north of Rio de Janeiro, on April…

Febrero, 2018 Ciudad Capital   Entrevista con Katherine Aguirre Tobón- Economista   La tregua a los delincuentes es un atajo político que no garantiza solución a la violencia letal El Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica carga com el lastre de la región más violenta del mundo,…

The publication analyzes the increase in the child and youth homicides between 1980 and 2014 in Brazil.

[In spanish] DW habló con dos experts sobre los obstáculos con que se topan a la hora de procesar las estadísticas acerca de los homicídios dolosos en Latinoamérica.

HuffPost July, 2017 Los homicidios no son el único problema que enfrenta el puerto guerrerense, uno de los municipios con mayor índice de criminalidad de todo México. No sólo los asesinatos se han convertido en un problema para Acapulco, considerado el municipio más peligroso del…

7 February, 2017 An expert panel share their thoughts on the social challenges for the region this year   ‘Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America’ Inequality is the key issue in Latin America, along with education. Some of the…

Foreign Affairs – The world has never been safer than it is right now. Most forms of violence have dropped precipitously

This Homicide Dispatch critically examines the relationships between organized crime and lethal violence.

The Economist – The thorny task of comparing crime rates across the world is tricky because legal interpretations vary

Americas Quarterly – Economic growth alone won’t stem violent crime. But the right policies – and leadership – can make a difference

This Dispatch offers several practical recommendations to reduce homicidal violence by 50% in the next thirty years.

Detectives in Manaus are investigating whether police death squads or criminal gangs were involved in a rash of execution-style killings that left 35 people dead in just three days. As the authorities flooded the streets with officers to reassure a nervous public, city officials were…