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Security & Strategic Review - April 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Changes in the murder count

Last year Honduras and El Salvador swapped places near the top of the world’s ranking of counties with the highest homicide rates. The murder rate has gone down sharply in Honduras, and surged almost as sharply in El Salvador. Although there are a number of factors at work, there is as yet no definitive explanation for this reversal of fortune.

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