Rates of crime in Guatemala are very high. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. [citation needed] The countries with the highest crime and violence rates in Central America are El Salvador and Honduras.[1] In the 1990s Guatemala had four cities feature in Latin America's top ten cities by murder rate: Escuintla (165 per 100,000), Izabal (127), Santa Rosa Cuilapa (111) and Guatemala City (101).[2] According to New Yorker magazine, in 2009, "fewer civilians were reported killed in the war zone of Iraq than were shot, stabbed, or beaten to death in Guatemala," and 97% of homicides "remain unsolved."[3] Much of the violent nature of Guatemalan society stems back to a 36-year-long civil war [4] However, not only has violence maintained its presence in the post-war context of the country following the Guatemalan Civil War, but it has extended to broader social and economic forms of violence.[5]
- ^ "Guatemala: Country-Specific Information". U.S. Department of State (November 23, 2009). Accessed January 18, 2009.
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- ^ WC Prillaman (2003), "Crime, democracy, and development in Latin America," Policy Papers on the Americas
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- ^ Winton, A (2005). "Youth, gangs and violence: Analysing the social and spatial mobility of young people in Guatemala City". Children's Geographies. 3 (2): 167–184. doi:10.1080/14733280500161537. S2CID 145489454.
