Crime in Mexico, Central America joins war in driving people from their homes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: McClatchy

Crime in Mexico, Central America joins war in driving people from their homes

By John Zarocostas

McClatchy Foreign Staff
May 6, 2015

GENEVA — Eleven million men, women, and children – a rate equal to 30,000 each day – fled their homes in 2014 because of conflict and violence, bringing the total what diplomats call internally displaced people to a record 38 million, a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council found Thursday.

While the report underscored the millions of people who’ve fled well known conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, it also highlighted a much less publicized phenomenon – escalating criminal violence by gangs and drug cartels forcing hundreds of thousands to abandon their homes in Mexico and Central America.

“What we see is that good governance, diplomacy, political solutions, justice and security apparatuses are retreating, and armed brutal men are on the offensive, and civilians pay the price for that,” said Jan Egeland, secretary general of the council.

“We cannot continue like this,” he said. “It’s a sign of a world that has fundamental problems in protecting and defending the defenseless.

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[jtuck004]

1. "...a world that has fundamental problems in protecting and defending the defenseless." < If you

rename them to "enemy combatants" or think of them as collateral damage, or use them to inflate the assets of the wealthy as we do in the U.S., it makes them much less problematic. Could even call them an asset to be mined, just not in front of others who don't think of them at all.

[blackspade]

2. It's called Capitalism

It is a systemic problem that hits developing nations the worst.