Uruguay’s interior minister, Eduardo Bonomi, who has faced consistent pressure from the political opposition for the better part of three years to resign over a perceived deterioration in public security, struck back last week. Bonomi celebrated the release by his ministry of what he described as “significant” figures showing that Uruguay’s homicide rate fell by 9.6% in 2016 on the previous year. In absolute terms this was a decline from 293 murders in 2015 to 265 in 2016, with the homicide rate falling from 8.5 per 100,000 inhabitants to 7.6, beneath the global average of 8 per 100,000.End of preview - This article contains approximately 352 words.
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