The escalation of violence in some areas of the country has been evident with the rates of homicide, massacres, attacks and the strengthening of criminal structures in territories, where historically there has been an atmosphere of violence and a large absence of state. This was evidenced in the report of the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice of Mexico, which recently revealed the list of the 50 most violent cities in the world in 2021, where four Colombian populations appear.
To determine the levels of violence reported in these cities, this research mainly took into account the homicide rates in cities per 100,000 inhabitants. In this regard, it was determined that in the case of Colombia the most dangerous city is Buenaventura, ranking number 13, since it has the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the Port District is 59.33 out of 186 violent deaths recorded in 2021. This may be related to domain and territory disputes carried out by clans and the constant difficulty of accessing state services, due to low national assistance.
In second place is the capital of Valle del Cauca, Cali, which reached significant levels of violence in 2021, as a result of many factors such as the strengthening of armed groups and the context of the national strike, in the ranking it ranks 24th with a homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants of 52.24, this for the 1,241 violent deaths that, according to the entity, occurred in that city last year.
The third most dangerous, also located in the Colombian Pacific, is Palmyra, which took 31st place, where an estimated 154 murders occurred, translating into a rate of 43 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. Finally, Cúcuta is the fourth most dangerous in Colombia and took 44th place on the list. The context of the capital of Norte de Santander is complex due to the wave of violence related to armed groups and the constant migration resulting from the state and governmental problems that Venezuela is experiencing, in addition to the alliances of the neighboring country's guard with armed groups such as Eln, denounced not by Human Right Watch and the Colombian Ministry of Defence.
The most dangerous city in the ranking was Zamora, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, where the rate is 196.63 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants and which was compared to the violence that Colombia experienced in the 1980s as a result of the drug cartels in Medellin and Cali.
“These high homicide rates were only observed in cities such as Medellín and Cali, between the late 1980s and early 1990s, when drug traffickers escalated to the maximum their war against the Colombian State and the massacres between rival factions,” the report reads to detail what is happening in Zamora.
But this was not the only city in the top 10 of the ranking of the North American country, as there are 7 more cities out of Mexico alone, among which are: Zacatecas, Ciudad Obregon, Tijuana, Celaya, Juárez, Ensenada and Uruapan.
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