Afraid to visit Mexico?
2 June 2009
I hear Guatemala is lovely this time of year:
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s national ombudsman says the number of murders between January and April exceeds by 15 percent the number during the same period in 2008 and that this year is on track to become the most violent in the history of the Central American country, which already suffers an average of 17 slayings per day.
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The 2008 murder total in Guatemala – a nation of approximately 13 million – was nearly equal to that in neighboring Mexico, which has more than 100 million inhabitants and is the scene of open war among rival drug cartels.
According to Interior Ministry figures, in the first four months of 2009 there were about 1,996 homicides…
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