Detail A Glimmer of Hope; Drugs and Violence   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8812 (Nov. 2012), page SS8-SS10. Topik: Violence; Drug Trafficking Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.74 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Five years ago Mexico was one of Latin America's gentlest countries, with a murder rate of nine per 100,000 people, not much higher than in the southern United States. But since then the numbers have more than doubled, in tandem with an increase in robbery, extortion and kidnapping. Sadistic killings have been beamed around the world over the Internet. Many parts of Mexico, including its gigantic capital, are relatively peaceful, so the country's overall murder rate is still no higher than Brazil's and much lower than much of Central America's. Yucatan, the quietest state, is statistically as safe as Finland. But very few places are unscathed by the trend: nearly all states saw more killings last year than five years earlier. Polls show that insecurity is Mexicans' biggest worry. Now, for the first time since murders began to soar in 2008, the rate is subsiding. In the first nine months of this year killings were 7% down on the same period in 2011. Twenty of Mexico's 31 states recorded a decline. In Juarez Mr Garcia's mortuary is back to handling about 40 bodies a month, little more than during what juarenses still know as the "pre-war" years. Still, as long as America imports billions of dollars-worth of drugs that it simultaneously insists must remain illegal, Mexico's gigantic criminal economy is unlikely to disappear. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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