Posted on 04/25/2011 1:53:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Here's a few more vacation spots to avoid like the plague:
Briton, 63, missing on Egypt cruise
St., Thomas man convicted in cruise passenger slaying
Britons shot in Florida killed as part of 'gang initiation' (Sarasota)
Unfortunately they're exporting that inhumanity here as reflected in the record number of criminal aliens.
34,600 in more or less 5 years.
Latest available data gives Mexico a murder rate of 13/100,000 compared the U.S. rate of 4/100,000.
61 Columbia
32 Jamaica
31 Venezuela
6 Costa Rica
4.5 Uraguay
...
1.5 Canada
Oddly, Brazil & Argentina are not listed.
SOURCE: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
This data is from BEFORE Calderon declared war on the cartels.
OTOH, the 2009 rate increased to 5.1, BUT the FBI included NON-negligent homicides in the murder rate.
Any way you slice it, practically any place south of the Border is MUCH more dangerous to life than the U.S.
Do you notice that politicians send their kids to private schools? They don’t expect to pay the price for the chaos that they sow.
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