Sunday, November 18, 2012

Olamic obloquy...


So many unnecessary deaths...carcasses in Caracas, a city that seems to be trying to climb the table from 6th (see image left, click to enlarge): so far this month there have been 302 homicides in the Venezuelan capital [El Universal]. Interesting list though: only 4 of the top 40 'most violent cities in the world' are outside the Americas. In fact only ONE of the top 50 is outside the Americas or South Africa.

However, there is no doubt that the list is skewed though because it is made of recorded homicides so not including any war zones, corrupt states (most of central Africa?) or any countries where infanticide and feminicide are often not treated as such (erm...wonder what religion they could be).

2 comments:

Paul said...

The headline on your newspaper today says '61 bodies entered the Bello Monte morgue during the weekend' - crazy country.

Span Ows said...

Yep, that's only one region of the capital, albeit a bad one!