🕊️ Safety

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Safety 🕊️

When Uruguayan voters hit the ballot box on Sunday, they had a few things to consider. Would they stick with the path of the governing National Party or return power to the leftist Broad Front? Would they vote to reform the social security system? And would they accept nighttime police raids?

The last of these questions is tied to a key concern for voters in Uruguay—and the rest of Latin America too.

Now, the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo is actually less safe than many might think, with a higher homicide rate than Colombian peers like Bogota and Medellin.

Go across the bay from Montevideo, though, and the story is quite different. Despite years of economic crisis, Argentina has got some of the safest cities in the hemisphere. Only Canada outperforms.

Buenos Aires isn’t alone in being a lot safer than many foreigners might expect. It’s joined in this metric by the two most populous cities in the Americas, São Paulo and Mexico City.

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