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  2. Crime in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Colombia has a high crime rate due to being a center for the cultivation and trafficking of cocaine.The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity conflict between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and left-wing guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to ...

  3. List of cities by homicide rate - Wikipedia

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    The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City. [2]

  4. List of slums - Wikipedia

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    A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. [1]

  5. Homicide in world cities - Wikipedia

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    This article contains A-Z tables of the incidence of intentional homicide in multi-municipal metropolitan areas and standalone municipalities with a predominantly urbanized population. It does not take into consideration capricious political divisions widely used in the media to represent a city, such as city proper or suburban municipalities .

  6. Crime and violence in Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Amnesty International has declared Latin America as the most dangerous region in the world for journalists to work. [9] In Mexico, armed gangs of rival drug smugglers have been fighting it out with one another, thus creating new hazards in rural areas. Crime is extremely high in all of the major cities in Brazil. Wealthy citizens have had to ...

  7. List of ghost towns by country - Wikipedia

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    Avshalom, Dikla, Nahal Yam, Netiv HaAsara, Sufa, Talmei Yosef, Yamit, and Pri'el were Israeli settlements in the Sinai built after the Six-Day War in 1967. They were dismantled by the Israeli government after the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 and are today abandoned.

  8. Illegal drug trade in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    The US, the world's largest consumer of cocaine [4] and other illegal drugs, intervened in Colombia throughout this period in an attempt to cut off the supply of these drugs to the US. The drug barons of Colombia , such as Pablo Escobar and José Rodríguez Gacha , were long considered by authorities to be among the most dangerous, wealthy, and ...

  9. Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá - Wikipedia

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    While most Ciudad Bolívar's area is rural, its urban portion includes one of the world's largest mega-slums. [2] Its urban area concentrates the poorest population in Bogotá and is known for its rampant levels of violence due to a large activity of gangs, mafia, and at times FARC , the national ex-terrorist group of Colombia.