This is going to raise a whole lot of posters' blood pressures. Get ready to clutch some pearls.

The 50 most violent cities in the world have been revealed – and 43 of them are in South and Central America. 19 of them are in Brazil (Rio and São Paulo are not included, however).

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/08/these-are-the-worlds-most-violent-cities-6562906/

None of these places surprise me....thanks for sharing....

The list is based on homicide rates, not thefts, rapes, kidnappings or assaults. 

How did MEM avoid this list?

 

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Amazing so many American cities on the list. Perhaps safer to travel to other countries?

Sobering about Brazil ... less than 3% of global pop but 38% of the top homicide incidence by city. But it is more like 15th in rank as far as national rates. Many Caribbean getaways, surprisingly, pose a higher risk of violence using the murder benchmark.

 

1 hour ago, TotallyOz said:

Amazing so many American cities on the list. Perhaps safer to travel to other countries?

There are 3 US cities out of 50....So many???

Surprised to see Natal top the Brazil listing, although there was a recent spurt of violence there.  My guess for that spot would have been Recife.  

Only people who enjoy being the only wealthy person on a dark street in a desperately poor neighborhood need look to this list for travel guidance. Most of the list would have been the same 200 years ago if you had included violence against people owned by other people. This list is the legacy of chattel slavery, extreme inequality and apartheid. Racial caste systems require violence. That violence outlives the system itself. Poor young men without access to the productive society turn on each other. "twas ever thus.  

Also of note, Im willing to bet that if such a list were published that expanded the definition of violence beyond murder and controlled for violence of poor locals against other poor locals, no more than 10 cities would make the new list.