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From CNN:

1 San Pedro Sula, Honduras
2 Ciudad Juárez, México
3 Maceió, Brazil
4 Acapulco, México
5 Distrito, Central Honduras
6 Caracas, Venezuela
7 Torreón, México
8 Chihuahua, México
9 Durango, México
10 Belém, Brazil
11 Cali, Colombia
12 Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
13 Culiacán, México
14 Medellín, Colombia
15 Mazatlán, México
16 Tepic , México
17 Vitoria, Brazil
18 Veracruz, México
19 Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
20 San Salvador, El Salvador
21 New Orleans, USA
22 Salvador, Brazil
23 Cúcuta , Colombia
24 Barquisimeto, Venezuela
25 San Juan, Puerto Rico
26 Manaos, Brazil
27 São Luís, Brazil
28 Nuevo Laredo, México
29 João Pessoa, Brazil
30 Detroit, USA
31 Cuiabá, Brazil
32 Recife, Brazil
33 Kingston, Jamaica
34 Cape Town, South Africa
35 Pereira, Colombia
36 Macapá, Brazil
37 Fortaleza, Brazil
38 Monterrey, México
39 Curitiba, Brazil
40 Goiânia, Brazil
41 Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
42 Barranquilla, Colombia
43 Saint Louis, USA
44 Mosul, Iraq
45 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
46 Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá
47 Cuernavaca, México
48 Baltimore, USA
49 Durban, South Africa
50 Johanesburgo, South Africa

Looks like Ciudad Juarez is improving... Northern México..

 

[Technosteve]

haha baltimore, i go to otakon there and that's the only time it's safe there

 

[GK86]

Damn, five Colombian cities.

Edit- A lot of spanish cities in general.

 

[Shepard]

smh Brazil :\

 

[zoku88]

Huh, didn't know there was a Mexican version of CNN.

Is it sad that whenever I see this lists, I always look for Baltimore first?

 

[tapedeck]

One of these things is not like the other...or three or so...

 

[SoulPlaya]

Apparently, South America is the most fucked up place on Earth.

 

[Az987]

Fucking Baltimore...

 

[partime]

Moving to Europe

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

Man, Central & South America, fuck me.

 

[NomarTyme]

Time up our game fools! USA USA USA!

 

[clemenx]

Caracas should be 1.

Not a single Chilean or Argentinian city! I always wished I was born a bit more in the south.

 

[speculawyer]

21 Nueva Orleáns USA
43 San Luis USA

I take it that those are New Orleans and Saint Louis?

 

[vilmer_]

D Town baby.

 

[Lonely1]

Man, Central & South America, fuck me.

But North America has 16 cities on the list!

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

haha baltimore, i go to otakon there and that's the only time it's safe there

Baltimore presumably makes the list for its crimes against baseball.

 

[el retorno]

Damn, five Colombian cities.

Edit- A lot of spanish cities in general.

No, Latin American, but not Spanish.

21 Nueva Orleáns USA
43 San Luis USA

I take it that those are New Orleans and Saint Louis?

Yes but I don't know why New Oreleans has an accent. Because it doesn't have one in spanish.

 

[devilru]

Australia isn't mentioned because the people conducting these studies didn't make it out alive

 

[Whooter]

43 San Luis, USA

Is this St. Louis, MO or San Luis Obispo, CA?

 

[jbueno]

Woooohooo Monterrey! Fucking disgrace. If you had told me 5 years ago it would have been on such a list, I would have told you to fuck off.

 

[crimzonflame]

I guess beautiful women come with a price.

 

[Good Job Bob]

No Miami?

 

[ghostofsparta]

Damn poor Mexico and Latin America

Is this St. Louis, MO or San Luis Obispo, CA?

San Luis Obispo duh, those surfers are monsters

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

Australia isn't mentioned because the people conducting these studies didn't make it out alive

wat

 

[Pastry]

21 Nueva Orleáns USA
43 San Luis USA

I take it that those are New Orleans and Saint Louis?

Yeah that'd be them. Are city names generally directly translated like these in Spanish even though they are proper nouns?

 

[sk3]

I'm kind of amazed there aren't a lot more african cities on there. But maybe its because they don't have as many large populated cities. I would rather walk around Detroit all day long than step foot in some of those countries.

 

[lazybones18]

Damn those Mexican and Latin American cities. Keeping Detroit out of the Top 5!

 

[noah111]

Only took twenty south/central american cities before a US city, and it ends up being New Orleans of all places...

Fuck the west indeed.

 

[Kitsunebaby]

haha baltimore, i go to otakon there and that's the only time it's safe there

Inner Harbor is always a pretty safe area. Why would the mass presence of nerds make it safer, in your opinion?

 

[Air]

I'm shocked there aren't many African countries on this list

 

[thesoapster]

haha baltimore, i go to otakon there and that's the only time it's safe there

lol bullshit. Much of the city is fine.

 

[rataplein]

Brazil 14
México 12
Colombia 5
South Africa 4
USA 4
Venezuela 3
Honduras 2
Guatemala 1
El Salvasor 1
Puerto Rico 1
Jamaica 1
Iraq 1
Panamá 1

 

[ezrarh]

I'm shocked there aren't many African countries on this list

They don't have the US drug market to supply.

 

[Sickboy007]

Seems rather Americo-centric. Only 4 African cities and they're all from SA?

 

[Green Biker Dude]

half the list is made up of brazilian capitals. i live in one of them, fml. also i like when i used to act e-tough on the interwebs, people would say i was bullshitting them

i know a guy from maceio too. he says people get killed there just by looking at each other wrongly. they'll cut your dick for no reason also

edit: i know irl people from like 4 or 5 cities in that list. we're like hokuto no ken fighters on the internet, i tells ya

 

[Bleepey]

I am surprised that Cape Town is higher than Johannesbourg but also at how "low" Johannesbourg is.

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

Yeah that'd be them. Are city names generally directly translated like these in Spanish even though they are proper nouns?

Um, yes. Different languages have different names for places.

 

[Starfish_Oxide]

God damn Europe are we even trying.

 

[MIMIC]

¡Ay, Dios mío!

 

[el retorno]

Yeah that'd be them. Are city names generally directly translated like these in Spanish even though they are proper nouns?

Yes because the names come from names and cities in europe are translated. You will sometimes see the names untranslated (more often in latin american countires) but often the language authories (RAE) will bitch about it.

For example in new orleans case http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltConsulta?lema=Nueva Orleans it specifically says " No debe usarse en español la forma inglesa New Orleans" The english form of New Orleans shouldn't be used.

 

[lunarworks]

Detroit is more dangerous than Mosul?

 

[Natetan]

south african cities are more dangerous than other cities in africa? i find that hard to believe...

 

[joseph1594]

I wonder what criteria they used for ranking these cities. I mean, surely a city such as Mogadishu, Somalia is more dangerous then St. Louis, Missouri, right?

I wonder if there was just a lot of lack of data in large parts of Africa outsides of South Africa along with other developing nations.

 

[Fuu]

Surprised at Rio not being between the Brazilian cities, time to gloat! (lol)

 

[Windu]

you sure this is the world? seems to be missing the other side of the world.

edit: well i see one middle eastern city is in there. Still seems odd..

 

[Jimothy]

you sure this is the world? seems to be missing the other side of the world.

edit: well i see one middle eastern city is in there. Still seems odd..

The other side of the world doesn't have a massive drug trade.

 

[delta25]

And what did we learn today children....?











STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MEXICO!!!!

 

[zero_suit]

Detroit is more dangerous than Mosul?

No.

 

[Barbacoatl]

Woooohooo Monterrey! Fucking disgrace. If you had told me 5 years ago it would have been on such a list, I would have told you to fuck off.

To be fair these lists not always reflect the true level of danger for the average citizen. I live in no. 2 and most of the danger is in collateral damage. If you are involved in the conflict then yes, you are in great danger. But for the city folk the worst of this exceptional phase seems to have passed, hopefuly. If what the media told me was true, I should've died a long time ago.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Nuke everything south of mid US from orbit.