Violence has always been one of humanity’s most serious global challenges. This is because for most of history, we were natural born killers. Hundreds of millions of men, women and children have been killed or maimed by armed conflict, crime, extremism and sexual and gender-based violence.
As Rachel Kleinfeld and Robert Muggah note, levels of state-to-state conflict in the world are now at historic lows. The world’s big powers confront one another by other means, whether that be proxy war in third countries, punitive trade tariffs, or digital subversion.
Brazil is the world’s murder capital. No other country even comes close. That is why it was big news when the country’s minister of justice recently announced that homicide rates fell by over 20 percent in 2019 compared to the same period last year.
The greatest wave of democratisation in history is receding – and crime and violence are to blame. Latin Americans were among the most devoted converts to democracy in the late 20th century.
One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted a sexually explicit video of a man touching himself late Tuesday night at a street party during Carnival, a nationwide festival known as the country’s biggest party.
Brazil has a crime problem. It is the country with the most homicides in the world, registering almost 64,000 last year—seventy-three percent of which involved guns
A wave of violence that has swept across the state of Ceara in the last three days has led Brazil’s newly appointed Minister of Justice Sergio Moro to immediately send 300 National Public Security Force officers to the region
Faced with an epidemic of homicidal violence and relentless corruption, newly elected governments in Latin America have unveiled ambitious crime reduction plans
Of the many outsiders who have emerged in Latin American politics of late, young Nayib Bukele stands out
Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is making good on a campaign promise to loosen the country’s gun laws.
Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun club three years ago and learned to shoot.
Jair Bolsonaro delivers campaign pledge for looser regulation, despite murder rate
CALI, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As a boy growing up in a slum in Cali, one of the most world’s most violent cities, Andres Felipe Gonzalez knew his chances of a life without crime or becoming a victim of crime were slim.
A caravan of about 1,600 hungry and tired Honduran immigrants crossed into Guatemala on Monday with the hopes of making it to the United States.
Francine Farias had just completed a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent citieswhen she heard a volley of gunfire and her count was rendered suddenly out of date.
“IT’S going to be crazy tonight,” sighs Craven Engel, a pastor in Hanover Park, a township on the fringes of Cape Town.
In less than a week, Brazil will vote in the most uncertain presidential elections since its return to democracy in 1985.
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.
On this edition of “Deep South” Ilona Szabo de Carvalho, Executive Director of Instituto Igarapé, discusses security concerns and upcoming elections in Brazil.
n one of the most lawless corners of Brazil, the former paratrooper and leading presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is finding a receptive audience for his hardline stance on law and order.
This ugly tale of domestic abuse is related from various angles by the security cameras in a residential block in Paraná, southern Brazil.
Before 2018 is over, more than half the population of Latin America will have elected a new president.
Nicaragua is taking a dangerous turn toward civil war. Since protests and riots began three months ago, Nicaraguan soldiers, police and paramilitary groups have killed more than 280 people and injured 1,800 others.
En Argentina y México, las leyes han sido reformadas con miras a introducir el principio del “donante presunto” y ampliar la cantidad de órganos disponibles para trasplantes. Esa figura atiza viejos temores. Un análisis.
Two young men are lying face down on the green forest floor. His friend, he says, is the one in the dark shirt, the one whose skull has been hacked open by a machete.
Furious at corrupt politicians and fearful of deteriorating security, many Brazilians are calling for a military intervention to clean house of crooked leaders and crack down on heavily armed drug gangs.
Even from his jail cell, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, founder of the Workers’ party, which has led Brazil for 13 of the past 15 years, still holds some of the most important keys to Brazil’s elections in October.
Febrero, 2018 Ciudad Capital Entrevista con Katherine Aguirre Tobón- Economista La tregua a los delincuentes es un atajo político que no garantiza solución a la violencia letal El Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica carga com el lastre de la región más violenta del mundo,
Esta semana se celebró en El Salvador el foro internacional “Diálogos sobre seguridad urbana: datos, diseño e innovación para la seguridad urbana”, organizado por Instituto Igarapé y otras organizaciones.
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