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<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmP0HaEFeN1p7oHWNJwBQgRKKYj4BDYW3ofAgWOuXQGAffwFFrt7WW4QI9tscomjGB-75mHMc20wvh4JOelDmGhomUnLL2SWd8VmzLMB5VgJXAFhXYq7_yubYfn2B3g0UUU0Sy9thWAaW/s1600/20120514-800px-World_Map_Index_of_perception_of_corruption_2010.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmP0HaEFeN1p7oHWNJwBQgRKKYj4BDYW3ofAgWOuXQGAffwFFrt7WW4QI9tscomjGB-75mHMc20wvh4JOelDmGhomUnLL2SWd8VmzLMB5VgJXAFhXYq7_yubYfn2B3g0UUU0Sy9thWAaW/s640/20120514-800px-World_Map_Index_of_perception_of_corruption_2010.svg.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Index of perception of corruption, 2010</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="hps"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">LATIN AMERICAS VIOLENCE AND STAGGERING CRIME RATES COME AT A HIGH PRICE</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Executive Summary:</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">LATIN AMERICA</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (LATAM) <span class="hps">is the most violent</span> <span class="hps">region in the world</span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">what</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> consequence      does<span class="hps"> this have on LATIN AMERICA</span>’s <span class="hps">economy      and society?</span></b> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">High levels of crime      undermine confidence in the state institutions</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">LATIN AMERICA has the world highest crime rates</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">High rate of pupils      abandoning school</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Business with fear</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crime and corruption are two of the world's largest      multinational industries</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></b></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Studies show</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> that violence and crime have<span class="hps"> economic consequences -</span> <span class="hps">URUGUAY</span>, <span class="hps">the country with the lowest crime rate</span> <span class="hps">on the continent</span>, loses <span class="hps">more than three percent</span> <span class="hps">of its GDP</span> a year due to crime and violence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">LATIN AMERICA</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (LATAM) <span class="hps">IS THE MOST VIOLENT</span> <span class="hps">REGION IN THE WORLD</span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WHAT</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> CONSEQUENCE DOES<span class="hps"> THIS HAVE ON LATIN AMERICA</span>S <span class="hps">ECONOMY AND SOCIETY?</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="hps"></span></b></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="hps"></span></b></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This has been</span></span> <span class="hps">investigated</span><span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inter-American</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span class="hps">Development Bank</span></b><span class="hps"> (BID</span>) <span class="hps">and the results are</span> <span class="hps">frightening</span>: From <span class="hps">birth weight</span> <span class="hps">of babies</span> <span class="hps">up to the</span> <span class="hps">value of a property, crime and violence take influence, BID</span> concluded.</div><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HIGH LEVELS OF CRIME UNDERMINE CONFIDENCE IN THE STATE INSTITUTIONS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"The crime caused direct costs for prevention and security infrastructure," economist Ana Corbacho said at the presentation of the study in Washington. "But the indirect costs are much higher, as high levels of crime undermine confidence in the state institutions."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">: One should not forget that security infrastructure and the security market in LATIN AMERICA is one of the biggest “industries”, and as in many countries, controlled and run mostly by Organized Crime Syndicates, thus fostering corruption. See: </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">CRIME AND CORRUPTION ARE TWO OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST MULTINATIONAL INDUSTRIES (Part1 and 2) at</span>:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/crime-corruption-and-political-system.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/crime-corruption-and-political-system.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">WORLDS HOMICIDE RATE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">LATIN AMERICA HAS THE WORLD HIGHEST CRIME RATES</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMgC_bdCux-9cwos88vlRu0akqUYiQHufpp14jJdiRxa1ri3wV4q6gEQKZTInDUEHuj-DEfvBthtqlstaaQxnBrxIi_8TJZFxMkW8hwIyq3zRnBPtz_f89Sg-C6oMLLUtwYsRrom8ehD9/s1600/brazil_guard_wideweb__470x330,0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMgC_bdCux-9cwos88vlRu0akqUYiQHufpp14jJdiRxa1ri3wV4q6gEQKZTInDUEHuj-DEfvBthtqlstaaQxnBrxIi_8TJZFxMkW8hwIyq3zRnBPtz_f89Sg-C6oMLLUtwYsRrom8ehD9/s320/brazil_guard_wideweb__470x330,0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Despite robust growth over the past decade and a sharp decline in poverty, LATIN AMERICA has the world highest crime rates. Inequality and marginalization, the dissolution of the traditional family structures and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">inefficient judicial and police apparatuses</b>, are according to the UN the main causes for such devastating crime rates. Between 2000 and 2010, homicide rates increased by 11%; with HONDURAS being the leading country with 85 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. In the EU, the rate is 1.6%.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">According to the BID study, mothers and children suffer most from the violence. Children of abused mothers have a birth weight of 2.5 kg, which is below the average, and often suffer from diarrhea and are vaccinated less frequently. This indicates that violence is a further impediment for social advancement.<br />If in a region in Mexico, the murder rate increases by one percent, the real estate market drops by 1.8 percent. Particularly violent regions showcase higher unemployment rates and less industries settling there. Such regions consume 6.8 percent less power in comparison to safer regions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HIGH RATE OF PUPILS ABANDONING SCHOOL</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Young criminals in COLOMBIA on average attend one year less in school than their peers and 15 percent abandon training more likely. In URUGUAY, one of the most “peaceful” country on the continent, the costs caused by violence and crime annually amount to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, or 3.1percent of the GPD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">BUSINESS WITH FEAR</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"We have thus for the first time a tool to measure the economic costs, crime and violence cause. Based on these findings we are now able to make political decisions," said BID coordinator, Gustavo Beliz. According to surveys, public safety is the most pressing topic and concern for the majority of the LATIN AMERICAN population, ahead of employment and health care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGVdVBR1UnsucAmekc2x7VwUNrmc0U90RQuWO3BjLXYaF94qnOWmCYwv9Cex8C2KBviXO1gAGpBVrBBSNrKc4OWXT4Eki6tOPcw_eoqGSiYoCcLhTcSxUexsg9jqX2um_lv9irPdxOeKv/s1600/M21685757.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGVdVBR1UnsucAmekc2x7VwUNrmc0U90RQuWO3BjLXYaF94qnOWmCYwv9Cex8C2KBviXO1gAGpBVrBBSNrKc4OWXT4Eki6tOPcw_eoqGSiYoCcLhTcSxUexsg9jqX2um_lv9irPdxOeKv/s320/M21685757.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buenos Aires: Protests against soaring crime</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br />But the study has also brought to light how big the business with fear is: In BRAZIL for example exists so called “Safety Bonuses” on Real Estates in prime locations which, households are willing to pay and which sum up to 13 billion U.S. dollars. In other words, if BRAZIL was a safer country, rents and real estate prices would be lower. "People are willing to pay for the sense of security," said the studies director, David Vetter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In ARGENTINA, the development of closed neighborhoods or gated communities are booming, giving the residence the feeling of security, not minding that they live in an environment that resembles a military camp with private security companies guarding the premises, who are mostly run by retired or suspended police chiefs and organized crime syndicates, thus even these so called “save heavens” are more frequently victims of crime and violence, keeping the business with fear and corruption booming.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">By </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sandra Weiss via DerStandard. Translated by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>

LATIN AMERICA: CRIME AND VIOLENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON THE ECONOMY

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