Central American kids come to the US fleeing record-high youth murder rates at home
- Written by Julio Ernesto Acuna Garcia, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Universidad San Fracisco de Quito (Ecuador)
Gang violence and expanding criminal networks have made El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – an area of Central America known as the “Northern Triangle” – some of the world’s most dangerous countries.
El Salvador’s homicide rate in 2016 – 109 murders per 100,000 people – was more than 25 times that...
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