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Havana (News) As elusive ghost, uptown violence causes more deaths in the world of today's unjust wars present and creates a situation particularly acute in Latin America.

According to a forum held in Lima, Peru, on February 9, one of the main bases phenomenon in this region is that much of "among the poorest fifth of young people" (according to Wikipedia, the fifth in a statistical population sorted from lowest to highest) is not economically active or study, especially in females. "

Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Commission For Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said here that 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 who complete primary school.

It also found that "the consequences of a weak insertion youth labor market are numerous, including low income, another of the many expressions of inequality.

All of the above "perpetuating inequality and intergenerational transmission of poverty "," misuse of the resources invested in education and social disintegration, "he added.

Because "education influences the future employability of young people", ECLAC recommends investing in it and on the job training.

This will limit negative effects are visible as possible, but both qualitative political changes are required.

The Latin American Information Agency recently incorporated the concern that "the specter of violence that plagues Latin America," stateless "or social divide that is safe," so it seems there is no place of refuge.

"Even behind the walls of the holy house," he said, "increasing aggression against the weak, children or the elderly and women. "

Roberto Briceño León, in Sociology of violence in Latin America, defines it as "meet death at the corner of the house ", but can also be added inside.

In his work, published in 2007 by the headquarters of Ecuador, Latin American Faculty of Sciences Social, Briceno said that the unemployment rate of young Latin Americans in 2003 was 15.7 percent, more than double that among adults, those affected in 6.7 percent.

But in 2009 the unemployment was 8.3 percent at the regional level, on average, and continued to weigh, the more weight in youth and women, a demographic factor of national life in each country.

Statistics cited by the author reveals that in the world at the beginning of the decade, 565 people died each day youth aged between 10 and 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 around 520 thousand homicides worldwide each year at a rate of 8.8 homicides per 100 000 inhabitants.

On the other hand, only produce about of 310 thousand victims in military actions, which represented 5.2 per 100 000 inhabitants.

Europe had the lowest homicide statistics, with a per 100 thousand, followed by America with 11, Africa and Latin America from 17.6 to 34.6, the scene of the biggest problem.

WHO estimates as high global rates in 2002, Latin American countries like Colombia with 84.4, El Salvador with 50.2, Brazil and Mexico with 32.5 15.3.

Around the same time, the Bank Development Bank estimated that 28.7 percent of homicides in Latin America then as victims were young people between 10 and 19 years, a reality that is worse instead of better.

Briceno said, meanwhile, that a major source of violence is based on the inability "to match the functions prescribed" for that age group, especially at the beginning of adolescence.

The author adds that in Latin America had at the beginning of the decade about 58 million poor youth, of whom 21 million lived in extreme poverty, with higher incidence among women, leading to a deterioration of reality.

With respect violence, believes that "exercise and suffer men" 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.

During 2002, the men of America had 12 times more likely than women to die murdered in Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela, 11 in Ecuador, 10 in Brazil and six in Costa Rica.

Among the reasons listed as worsened traffic in drugs, alcohol and possession firearms, which facilitates and lethality caused annually in 2004, more than 200 000 deaths in these media "in any war" and 300 thousand in unjust wars.

Weapons produced by "more than a thousand companies in 98 countries around the world," even contribute to Latin America with the highest number of homicides for this cause and show a rate three times higher than in Africa, five times larger than North America or Central and East Europe, and 48 times larger than Western Europe.

Similarly, femicide, trafficking and trafficking of women reflect a trend that the Central American Integration System and the Spanish Cooperation Agency in Madrid considered with "category epidemic in Central America.

Throughout the area, the number of deaths doubled between 2003 and 2009 with more than five thousand murders in Guatemala, in this case since 2000 – followed by Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.

While the female leads in the insignificant figures, adds instead a rising death toll, high at 160 per cent between 2003 and 2007, while for men then increased only 50 percent.

It is considered that this is enhanced by "the use of firearms, trafficking and trafficking in women -" mainly for sexual exploitation – and the coexistence of "sale of children born in the context of trafficking."

On February 16, news media reported in Mexico, Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, was declared "disaster area" because "terror seized" of life daily.

The state Congress chief, Maria Serna Avila said to be "the stories are frightening," because "there are families who do not even go to restaurants, for fear that drug dealers withdrew their daughters, if they like, even if they are minors.

With this in mind, then developed coordinated military operation of Chihuahua, whose regime is based on "territorial control" and actions against vehicles without license plates or that Americans had, and in bars, taverns and brothels.

A report by the Woodrow Wilson International Center reflects that the Secretary General of the Organization of American States Jose Miguel Insulza, recently revealed that this region, with only eight percent of the 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 increased fivefold.

In this regard, he added that organized crime, drug trafficking and other ills are transnational, with increasing magnitude across the continent and manifestations as actual drug trafficking, kidnapping, weapons proliferation and human trafficking.

This comes as a progressive state, and that 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 50-70 years it is also true that a generation of parents migrating to cities in search of a better future which then caused the explosion in the hills of Caracas, violence in the favelas of Rio and, finally, the struggle for survival in Latin American cities.

In 1950, only 41 percent Latin American population lived in cities, but in 2000 the percentage had risen to 75, almost twice statistically.

But this was not just a reflection of migration, but also a growing urban population was 69 million in mid-century in Latin America and the Caribbean 391 million in 2000, an increase of 332 million inhabitants of the city.

Then, the region was only between 161 and 175 million people, but now in excess of 550 million and projected to increase to 695 million in 2025 and the expectation of 794 million in 2050, unchanged alarming violence of expansion.

In this context, WHO considers that the killings are undoubtedly a serious public health problem, with one dimension greater than wars.

Not always recognized, however, affect how the deficiencies in population statistics of violence in Latin America the most unequal region in the world.

In 2009, ECLAC reported that increased regional poverty 1.1 percent and extreme poverty by 0.8 compared to 2008 and as a result, the poor increased from 180-189000000 (34.1 percent of the population) and indigent 71-76000000 (13.7 percent), to roll back progress made still very insufficient between 2002 and 2007.

Again, increasing insecurity and crisis adds to population growth, urban concentration in the last 60 years, economic inequality and related social and silent war as reflected in the statistics, caused by poverty.

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Baltazar Gomez arrested (photo courtesy Daily Twenty-First Century)

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