‘41 among the top 50 violent cities are located in Latin America and the Caribbean…Why? It might be related to three decades of neoliberalism and the end of welfare state [...], the economies of extraction, flourishing weapon markets, the culture of fear, violence and war, drug smuggling policies, massive urbanization after forced migratory flows, or a still  ongoing colonialism.’

[map by otramérica 2012. data source: CCSPJPAC. My translation]