Crime in Latin America

Latin America is home  to just eight percent of the world's population,but 33 percent of its homicides,according to a report from Igarape Institute.
                       *Just four countries in the region-Brazil,Colombia,Mexico and Venezuela -account for a quarter of all the murders on Earth.
                                  -From the article AN EPIDEMIC OF MURDERS,in THE MONTREAL GAZETTE,April 27,2018,N2.