Ecuador’s soaring homicide rates

Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was outspoken over links between organised crime and government officials, has been assassinated in the capital, Quito


Aug 9: Fernando Villavicencio shot dead. Journalist received death threats for exposing alleged links between government of former President Rafael Correa and powerful narco-trafficking industry


Ecuador’ s mounting homicide rates 
(per 100,000 inhabitants)

Jul 23: Mayor of Manta, Agustín Intriago, gunned down amid rising drug-linked gang violence

12.41 	10.97	8.21 	6.48 	5.83 	5.81 	5.84 	6.84 	7.80	14.02	25.90
2012 	2013 	2014 	2015 	2016 	2017 	2018 	2019 	2020 	2021 	2022

2021: 180% increase

2022: 185% increase


Homicide rates
(per 100,000 inhabitants, 2022)

Mexico 25.2
Honduras 35.8
Ecuador 25.9
Peru 5.7 (2020) 
Venezuela 40.4 
Trinidad and Tobago 39.4
Colombia 26.1
Brazil 18.8


Sources: Insight Crime, Macrotrends, Reuters 
Pictures: Getty Images, Facebook 
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