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Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Nicaragua a score of 14 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Nicaragua ranked 172nd among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [2]
As of September 2020, the Dominican Republic recorded 705 murders according to its Citizen Security Observatory, giving the country a projected annual total of 940 killings and a homicide rate of 9.0 per 100,000 (one of the lowest in the region).
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
7 February: Nicaragua grants political asylum to former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli after he requested protection at the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City. [2]16 February: The government orders the dissolution of the Asociación de Scouts de Nicaragua and seven other nongovernmental organizations perceived of opposition to the regime of President Daniel Ortega, accusing the ...
Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. [2] The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accounting for 99.7 per cent of the world's population) according to their levels of ...
The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer "for our priests." Nicaraguan ...
August 16 – Luis Abinader is sworn in for a second term as President of the Dominican Republic. [3] September 1 – A truck crashes into a bar in Azua, killing 11 people and injuring 40 others. [4] October 2 – The government announces plans to deport 10,000 Haitian immigrants on a weekly basis. [5]
Crime and violence affect the lives of millions of people in Latin America.Some consider social inequality to be a major contributing factor to levels of violence in Latin America, [1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over State control in areas where the State is unable to assist the society such as in impoverished communities.