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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Honduras: 38.6 per 100,000
Honduras maintained the ignominious title of Central America's most deadly country in 2021, with a homicide rate of 38.6 per 100,000 people.

The 3,651 killings recorded last year, according to preliminary government figures, was an uptick from the 3,599 in 2020, but still below the nearly 4,000 homicides in 2019.

Massacres – killings of three or more people – occurred at an alarming rate of about one a week in 2021. The 53 multiple killings were often the product of gang disputes or revenge assassinations. Criminologist Nery Ordóñez pointed to a string of massacres in the wake of large drug seizures in the northern part of the country.

In 2021, Honduras saw some of its worst political violence in the run-up to November's presidential elections.

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