The Insight Crime website has published its annual list of homicide rates for mainland Latin American countries (not including the Caribbean islands).
At 50.9 homicides per 100,000, Ecuador had the highest murder rate in Latin America.
See my previous article Mexican Cartels Wreak Havoc in Ecuador and note that the Ecuadorian government is now working closely with the Trump administration to crush the cartels in that South American country.
The second-highest murder rate in Latin America belongs to Brazil, at 19.2 per 100,000, followed by Guatemala at 17.4, Costa Rica at 16.8 and Mexico at 15.4.
The website has another list for the Caribbean islands and Belize and Guyana. The highest murder rate in that region is Haiti at 68 per 100,000, followed by Turks and Caicos at 57.6.
Those lists are national homicide rates.
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