LatinNews Daily - 10 June 2015

The gap in Argentina’s countrywide statistics on homicide has been narrowed by a recent study carried out by the nongovernmental Asociación para Políticas Públicas (APP) which has compiled data up to the end of 2013 — that is, three years after the ministry of justice ceased to publish these figures. The APP has relied on the information on mortality, specifically violent deaths, gathered by the health ministry. This information yields higher figures than those produced by the security forces and the judiciary, which has led to suggestions in the local media that the authorities have been playing down the size of the problem.

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