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Latin America's Security Sector: Where Crime Pushes Growth - September 2007
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 Author:  Thomas Rideg 

 

Security is growing to be a major industry in most markets around the planet and Latin America is not lagging behind.  Priorities throughout different areas of the globe on security issues differ:  while industrialized nations are concerned with terrorism, developing nations are mostly concerned with crime.  The general trend in security in Latin America is to protect the white collar class from violence derived from the disparity of wealth in the region.

Firearm murders in Latin America are triple the global average.  Thirty out of every 100,000 people are murdered annually in the region.  Kidnappings in Latin America, although highly disguised by the local authorities, represent of 60% of all kidnappings worldwide. 

 
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