Current news concerning Oaxaca, Mexico as well as Mark's thoughts, for what they are worth, on the world's most pressing issues of the day.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
South Africa as dangerous as Iraq
A South African opposition politician has charged that the murder rate in South Africa, 43 per 100,000, is roughly equal to Iraq's. That's pretty bad. Iraq is a country at war with itself and South Africa claims to be a developed nation. Of course, there are still a lot of unmarked mass grave to be found in Iraq, which could put that country back in the lead as the world's most dangerous place.
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