Twelve Mexican cities are included in a list of the 50 most violent cities on the planet, according to a report presented here today by a civil organization that places Los Cabos, Baja California, as the most dangerous, Prensa Latina reported.
This is the conclusion of the study Ranking of the 50 Most Violent Cities in the World 2017, prepared by the Citizen Council for Public and Criminal Security.
The president of such organization, Jose Antonio Ortega, said that Acapulco, Tijuana, La Paz, Ciudad Victoria, Culiacan, Juarez, Chihuahua, Obregon, Tepic, Reynosa and Mazatlan are also on the list.
According to the figures in the report, Los Cabos has 111.33 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
Of the 50 cities on the list, 17 are located in Brazil, 12 in Mexico, five in Venezuela, four in the United States, three in Colombia, three in South Africa and two in Honduras; El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Jamaica, with one city, respectively.
'The Mexican cities were very far from the rate of almost 300 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants that reached Juarez (Chihuahua) in 2010, but the increase in violence is undeniable,' the text pointed out.
Mexico officially registered 25,339 murders in 2017, its most violent year in two decades.