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According to a report released by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice in Mexico , various Latin American cities are among the most dangerous in the world, with Honduras' San Pedro Sula taking the top spot in the ranking. San Pedro Sula had 1,218 murders for 719,447 inhabitants in 2012. To name the most dangerous cities, the deterioration of public security and escalation of violence in the past year were taken into account. Here are the other cities on the list.
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Acapulco takes the second place on the list. The city reported 1,170 murders for 818,853 inhabitants. For years Acapulco was a popular destination in Mexico because of its beaches, but violence between drug carters and criminal bands have affected tourism. "Measures to promote tourism need to be accompanied with more security to be congruent," said Jose Zedao, president off the College of Tourism Agents. Jose Antonio Ortega, president of ONG, said that Acapulco will become like Ciudad Juarez in a few years if authorities don't take control.
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Caracas, Venezuela took third place on the list. The council reported 3,862 homicides per 3,247,971 inhabitants. According to the article published by El Mundo last year, only eight of 100 crimes that occurr in Venezuela are punished. On the other hand, many accuse Hugo Chavez' government of minimizing the situation.
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The Federal District in Francisco Morazan in Honduras takes fourth place. There are 1,1149 muders per 1,126,534 inhabitants. The authorities talked about an epidemic of violence, according to an article published by El Heraldo. The Regional metropolitan Police has said that there is only one police officer per 1,752 inhabitants.
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The violence in Torreon places the city in fifth place of the most dangerous. There are 1,087 murders per 1,147,647 inhabitants.
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Another list on the little-enviable ranking is the city of Macelo in Brazil. According to the report there are 801 homicides per 932,748 inhabitants in the city.
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Next in the ranking is Cali, Colombia with 1,1819 homicides per 2,294,653 inhabitants. There are drug cartels and guerrillas which fuel much of the violence. Little after the fall of Pablo Escobar in Medellin, in 1993; the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers, in Cali, were captured in 1995, unleashing a wave of violence in the city.
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The violence in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico has produced 288 murders for 385,315 inhabitants. Since the Sinaloa Cartel entered the city to fight the Zetas, violence has exploded in the city.
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The Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto is also among the most dangerous. The report states there were 804 homicides for 1,120,718 inhabitants. For th epast years, Venezuela has been prominent in the most dangerous countries in the world. In 2011, the Global Study on Homicide, published by the UN, placed Venezuela as the South American country with the highest rate and the fourth in America behind Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica.
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Recife in Brazil had 1,656 homicides in a city of 3,717,640 inhabitants.
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Another city from Brazil to feature on the list is Joao Pessoa. There were 508 homicides reported for 723,515 inhabitants. meanwhile, in December president Dilma Rouseff informed that three in every 1000 Brazilian teens are murdered before turning 19. The majority of the victims are men.
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Manaus, Brazil takes the 12th spot on the list. The ranking is established with 945 homicides for 1,342,846 inhabitants.
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Guatemala City, the country's capital, is also very dangerous. The report establishes 2,063 homicides for 3,062,519 inhabitants. In the entire nation there were 4,000 homicides in 2012, according to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences. The majority of the crimes are from gunfire. Photo: Getty Images -
Fortaleza, Brazil, had 1,628 homicides per 2,452,185 inhabitants, which places it on the list.
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Salvador City in Brazil had 2,391 homicides for 3,642,482 inhabitants, making it one of the most violent in the world.
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The city of Culiacan, in Mexico, is number 16 on th elist. The report estimated 549 homicides for 884,601 inhabitants. It is the fourth Mexican city on the list.
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Vitoria Brazil had 1,018 homicides for 1,685,384 inhabitants. In January, a one-year old girl, identified as Vitoria de Barros, was murdered during a robbery.
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The first American city to make the list is New Orleans. The city reported 93 homicides per 343,829 inhabitants. Another ranking of the most dangerous cities in the United States, done by CQ Press, placed it as the fifth most violent. Photo: Getty Images -
Cuernaca, Mexico had 359 murders per 640,188 inhabitants. Due to murder per capital ratio, the city is considered one of the most dangerous in the world.
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico had 749 homicides for 1,339,648 inhabitants, according to the report. Regardless, at the start of the year, they showed an importante decrease in crime, from the 2,086 reported in 2011, to 750 the year before. The numbers were released by the State of Chihuahua. Photo: Getty Images -
Guayana, Venezuela reported 578 homicides for 1,050,283 inhabitants. In February 2012, the Venezueal observatory began the Campaign to Sensibilitize the Value of Life in Venezuela in conjunction with the Universidad Catolica ndres Bello in Guyana to send a message of peace.
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The city of Detroit, in the United States, also ranks among one of the most dangerous in the world with 386 murders for 606,585 inhabitants. This year it was also named one of the most violent of the United States by CQ Press.
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The city of Cucuta in Colombia, was another Latin American destination that was dangerous. They had 346 homicides for 637,302 inhabitants.
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Sao Luis, Brazil, another South American city on the list, had 509 homicides per 1,014,837 inhabitants.
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The city of Medellin Colombia had 1,175 homicides per 2,393,011 inhabitants. At the end of 2012, Semana.com published an article that mentioned the control of territory by criminal bands in the area which set off the violence. Regardless, though in 2012 there were more than 1,000 crimes reported, violence still does not compare to the era lived with Pablo Escobar, where in 1991 alone there were 6,349 homicides reported.
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The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, reported 568 homicides per 1,171,686 inhabitants. For some years, the island has been reported as one of the places with the highest criminal rate by the United Natins. While the rate of murder is lower than other countries, the size of the island's population needs to be taken into account. Photo: Getty Images -
Brazil has another city on th elist with Belem, with 1,033 murders for 2,141,618 inhabitants.
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Cape Town in South Africa is another of the mots dangerous, with 1,722 homocides per 3,740,026 inhabitants.
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Another Brazilian city on the list is Cuiba, Brazil, which reported 380 homicides for 839,130 inhabitants.
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In Santa Marta, Colombia, there were 209 homicides for 461,810 inhabitants. Although other countries did not have commentary, the state government argued that the "civil association does not reveal the details of the information presented, which translates to an inconsistency in methodology which takes all credibility from the document." Photo: Getty Images
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According to a report released by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice in Mexico , various Latin American cities are among the most dangerous in the world, with Honduras' San Pedro Sula taking the top spot in the ranking. San Pedro Sula had 1,218 murders for 719,447 inhabitants in 2012. To name the most dangerous cities, the deterioration of public security and escalation of violence in the past year were taken into account. Here are the other cities on the list.
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