High_Plains_Drifter
11-03-2018, 12:55 PM
... but I don't find this shocking. What I do find shocking, however, is the fact that ten of thousands of this filth has been pouring over our border for God only knows how long. This is the number issue to me. This needs to be stopped like right now. I'd like to see the southern just shut down, period, closed. You cross the border illegally, you're just detained and deported, that's it, no court, no asylum, no nothing, just jail and sent back, period.
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Latin America Is the Murder Capital of the World
Riven by drugs, gangs, weak institutions and lawlessness, the region is facing a crisis.
ACAPULCO, Mexico—It was the beginning of just another day in one of the world’s most murderous places.
Cristian Sabino was sitting on a plastic chair by this beach resort’s central market when a gunman walked up and shot him five times. As the 22-year-old dropped to the ground, the assailant fired a final bullet to the head and walked away.
Six more people would be killed that day in Acapulco, including a cabdriver who was hacked to pieces. Death is so much part of the landscape that once police cordoned off the area around Mr. Sabino’s body, some patrons at a nearby rotisserie chicken restaurant stayed to finish their meals.
Acapulco’s days as a tourist resort with a touch of Hollywood glamour seem long ago. In a city of 800,000, 953 people were violently killed last year, more than in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal and the Netherlands put together.
It’s not just Mexico. There is a murder crisis across much of Latin America and the Caribbean, which today is the world’s most violent region. Every day, more than 400 people are murdered there, a yearly tally of about 145,000 dead.
With just 8% of the world’s population, Latin America accounts for roughly a third of global murders. It is also the only region where lethal violence has grown steadily since 2000, according to United Nations figures.
Nearly one in every four murders around the world takes place in just four countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia. Last year, a record 63,808 people were murdered in Brazil. Mexico also set a record at 31,174, with murders so far this year up another 20%.
The 2016 tally in China, according to the U.N.: 8,634. For the entire European Union: 5,351. The United States: 17,250.
Read more here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/400-murders-a-day-the-crisis-of-latin-america-1537455390?emailToken=2d34cf8d0ad2e81991d6327568fa 5688tpcM7Ou0NQDIAZqmFtwVTzAV6y2lXiYD8JcZ4g5yIA4SDA s7JIrHPy7HKxmoSDq90mgDL8YIY9Z7/QLfhfOle4zbAvzY7hpRXK25640izhI%3D&reflink=article_imessage_share
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Latin America Is the Murder Capital of the World
Riven by drugs, gangs, weak institutions and lawlessness, the region is facing a crisis.
ACAPULCO, Mexico—It was the beginning of just another day in one of the world’s most murderous places.
Cristian Sabino was sitting on a plastic chair by this beach resort’s central market when a gunman walked up and shot him five times. As the 22-year-old dropped to the ground, the assailant fired a final bullet to the head and walked away.
Six more people would be killed that day in Acapulco, including a cabdriver who was hacked to pieces. Death is so much part of the landscape that once police cordoned off the area around Mr. Sabino’s body, some patrons at a nearby rotisserie chicken restaurant stayed to finish their meals.
Acapulco’s days as a tourist resort with a touch of Hollywood glamour seem long ago. In a city of 800,000, 953 people were violently killed last year, more than in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal and the Netherlands put together.
It’s not just Mexico. There is a murder crisis across much of Latin America and the Caribbean, which today is the world’s most violent region. Every day, more than 400 people are murdered there, a yearly tally of about 145,000 dead.
With just 8% of the world’s population, Latin America accounts for roughly a third of global murders. It is also the only region where lethal violence has grown steadily since 2000, according to United Nations figures.
Nearly one in every four murders around the world takes place in just four countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia. Last year, a record 63,808 people were murdered in Brazil. Mexico also set a record at 31,174, with murders so far this year up another 20%.
The 2016 tally in China, according to the U.N.: 8,634. For the entire European Union: 5,351. The United States: 17,250.
Read more here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/400-murders-a-day-the-crisis-of-latin-america-1537455390?emailToken=2d34cf8d0ad2e81991d6327568fa 5688tpcM7Ou0NQDIAZqmFtwVTzAV6y2lXiYD8JcZ4g5yIA4SDA s7JIrHPy7HKxmoSDq90mgDL8YIY9Z7/QLfhfOle4zbAvzY7hpRXK25640izhI%3D&reflink=article_imessage_share