LatinNews Daily - 28 January 2015

Homicide in Guatemala has been falling over the past two administrations. After escalating from 3,428 murders in 2004 to a peak of 6,498, equivalent to 46.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, in 2009, a year after former president Álvaro Colom (2008-2012) took office, it was brought down by the end of his term in 2011 to 5,681 (38.6 per 100.000). Colom’s successor, Otto Pérez Molina, brought it down a further 12% to 4,998 (31.6 per 100,000) in 2014.

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