The other war
Havana (News) As the elusive ghost, urban violence causes more deaths in the world today and this unjust war creates a particularly serious situation in Latin America.
According to a forum held in Lima, Peru, Feb. 9, one of the main bases of this phenomenon in this region is that many of "the poorest quintile among young people" (according to Wikipedia, the fifth in a statistical population of less ordered higher) is not economically active or study, especially in women. "
Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said only 32.4 percent of young women, with a maximum of three years of school, have jobs, a percentage that rises to 53 among those completing primary and secondary.
He noted that "the consequences of an insertion in the labor market weakly young people are multiple, including low income, another of the many expressions of inequality.
Everything that precedes "perpetuates inequality and intergenerational transmission of poverty, "misuse" of the resources invested in education and social disintegration, "he added.
Because "education affects the employability of young people", ECLAC recommends investing in it and training for employment.
This will limit the negative effects that are seen as possible, but both the qualitative changes are needed policies.
Information Agency in Latin America recently played concern that "the specter of violence prevalent in Latin America", not "country or social divide that is safe," it seems there is no place of refuge.
"Even after the walls of the sacred house," he said, "Shoot the aggression against the weak, the children or the elderly and women. "
Roberto Briceño León, the sociology of violence in Latin America, defined as "meeting death on the corner of the house "but can also be added inside.
In his book, published in 2007 by the head of Ecuador, Latin American Faculty social sciences, Briceño notes that the unemployment rate of young Latin Americans in 2003 was 15.7 percent, more than double that of adults, people affected by 6.7 percent.
But in 2009 unemployment was 8.3 percent at the regional level, on average, continued to weigh, the more weight in young and women, a demographic factor of national life in each country.
The statistics cited by the author show that in the world at the beginning of the decade, 565 people died every day from 10 to 29 years for a murder rate of 9.2 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002 there were approximately 520,000 homicides worldwide each year at a rate of 8.8 homicides per 100 000.
By contrast, only produces about 310 000 victims of military actions, which represented 5.2 per 100,000 population.
Europe had the highest homicide statistics low, with one per 100,000, followed by America with 11, Africa and Latin America from 17.6 to 34.6, the scene's biggest problem.
The WHO has estimated that the increase in the world in 2002, the countries of Latin America with 84.4 Colombia, El Salvador with 50.2, 32.5 in Brazil and Mexico with 15.3.
Around the same time, the Bank Development found that 28.7 percent of homicides in Latin America, then as the victims were between 10 and 19, a worse reality instead of better.
Briceño notes, meanwhile, that a major source of violence is based on the "inability to match the functions prescribed "for this age group, especially in early adolescence.
The adds that America had at the beginning of the decade about 58 millions of poor youth, with 21 million in extreme poverty, with a higher incidence among women, leading to a worsening of reality.
As for violence, believes that "men and suffer from" the exercise more in a world where the homicide rate, according to WHO, is among them, 19 per 100 000 inhabitants and only four per 100 000 among women.
In 2002, American men were 12 times more likely than women who are murdered in Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela 11 in Ecuador 10 in Brazil and six in Costa Rica.
Among the reasons listed as aggravated trafficking in drugs, alcohol and weapons possession of firearms, which eases and mortality caused each year by 2004, more than 200 000 deaths in these settings "in no case for war" and 300 000 in unjust wars.
Weapons produced by "more than a thousand companies in 98 countries around the world, including Latin America contributed to the largest number of homicides this cause and show a rate three times higher than in Africa, five times that of North America and central Europe and is, and is 48 times larger than Europe West.
Similarly, femicide, trafficking and trafficking of women reflect a trend that the Central American Integration System and the Spanish Agency Cooperation in Madrid considers that the epidemic of the class "Central America.
Throughout the area, the number of deaths doubled between 2003 and 2009 more than five thousand murders in Guatemala, this case since 2000 – followed by Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.
While the female leads in insignificant numbers, add more of a toll increase amounted to 160 percent between 2003 and 2007, while for men, but increased by 50 percent.
It is considered that this provision is reinforced by "the use of firearms, trafficking and trafficking in women -" mainly purposes of sexual exploitation – and the coexistence of "sale of children born in the context of trafficking."
February 16, media reported Mexico, Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, has been declared "disaster area" because "terror seized" of everyday life.
The Head of State to Congress, Maria Avila Serna, said "the stories are frightening," because "there are families who do not even go the restaurant for fear that drug dealers withdrew their daughters, if they wish, even if they are minors.
Given that, then developed coordinated military operation in Chihuahua, whose plan was based on "territorial control" and action against vehicles without license plates or the Americans, and bars, taverns and brothels.
A report by the Woodrow Wilson International Center shows that the Secretary General of the Organization of American States Jose Miguel Insulza, recently revealed that this region, with only eight percent of world population in 2009 was 40 percent of homicides and 66 percent of kidnappings in the world.
He acknowledged that the homicide rate in Latin America and the Caribbean on two occasions in the current world average, although in some countries has increased fivefold.
In this regard, he added that organized crime, drug trafficking and other problems are transnational, with increasing magnitude across the continent and events, such as the real drug trafficking, kidnapping, weapons proliferation and trafficking.
This comes as a progressive state, as when poverty began to deepen regional urban macrocephaly in the second half of the twentieth century.
While it is argued that life expectancy tends to increase from 50 to 70 years, it is also true A whole generation of parents migrating to cities in search of a better future which then caused the blast in the hills of Caracas, violence in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro and finally, the struggle for survival in Latin American cities.
In 1950, only 41 percent of the population lived in cities in Latin America, but in 2000 this figure had risen to 75, almost twice statistically.
But was only a reflection of migration but also a growing urban population was 69 million by mid-century America and the Caribbean 391 million in 2000, an increase 332 million urban dwellers.
Meanwhile, the region was only between 161 and 175 million people, but now exceeds 550 million and is projected reach 695 million by 2025 and 794 million in 2050, pending alarming if not modified the violent expansion.
In this context, WHO estimates that the murders are definitely a public health problem, with an even greater dimension than wars.
Not always recognized, however, affect how gaps population statistics of violence in Latin America the most unequal region in the world.
In 2009, ECLAC said that poverty increased regional 1.1 percent and extreme poverty compared to 0.8 in 2008 and, therefore, the poor rose from 180 to 189 million (34.1 percent of the population) and the needy from 71 to 76 million (13.7 percent) to reverse the progress made is still insufficient between 2002 and 2007.
Again, increasing insecurity and crisis adds to population growth, urban concentration in the last 60 years, economic inequality and social correlates, and silent war, as evidenced by the statistics, caused by poverty.
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