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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Paraguay: 7.4 per 100,000
Driven in part by an onslaught of murders by hired guns, killings in Paraguay rose last year.

The nation recorded 525 murders in 2021, a nine percent jump from the 481 in 2020, according to data from the Interior Ministry. Paraguay's homicide rate of 7.4 per 100,000 was low for Latin America. But one method of murder – mostly linked to organized crime and criminal gangs – was on the rise: targeted killings.

(…) Rolón Luna, the former director of the country's citizen security observatory, told Última Hora that increased trafficking activity, as well as conflicts over territory and routes for the cocaine trade, was likely to blame for the increasing deployment of hired guns.

Known as sicariato, targeted killings left a trail of bloodshed in the Paraguay-Brazil border department of Amambay. About a quarter of the country's homicides occurred in the eastern department, which includes Pedro Juan Caballero, a border city accustomed to violence.

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