Security & Strategic Review - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BOLIVIA | Concern over ‘rising crime’. On 30 June, Interior Minister Carlos Romero said that Bolivia was struggling to cope with a rising crime rate, largely because of the lack of adequate law-enforcement resources. The only figure he provided was a homicide rate of 11 per 100,000 inhabitants, which he described as the highest rate in the Southern Cone and ‘three times higher than the countries that have been successful in the area of public security, particularly Chile.’

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