Most dangerous neighborhoods in the world

The world is a very unfair place, there are more and more poor people and that poverty brings crime. Today life in big cities has become dangerous. There are few places in the world where one can live really calmly, without fear, because there are neighborhoods everywhere.

A traveler must know them, so as not to fall into them without knowing, so today in Actualidad Viajes see the most dangerous neighborhoods in the world.

Cape Flats, Cape Town

South Africa has a long history of poverty and violence, and things did not change when Mandela was president. Unfortunately, it is still a poor country and as we said at the beginning, poverty and violence go hand in hand.

In Cape Town, the Cape Flats neighborhood is especially dangerous, a concentration of densely populated blocks with many gangs. The gangs are very dangerous, so much so that it is the army that controls them with armed convoys.

The most terrifying gangs are Fancy Boys, Dixie Boys, Hard Livings, Americans, for example, among some 130 gangs thought to exist in the area. Police corruption has caused the escalation of violence to skyrocket when a former officer sold these gangs more than 2500 weapons. Armed, in the last 10 years, bloody events are the order of the day.

Obviously, Cape Town is not the only dangerous city in South Africa: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban.

Tijuana, Mexico

Nobody can say that they do not know Tijuana: the one hundred Americans have been in charge of making this border city between Mexico and the United States the worst of fame. In Tijuana there are just over 2 million people and the homicide rate is about 138 deaths per 100 inhabitants.

That is, there are 138 homicides for every 100 thousand inhabitants, almost seven people are murdered per day in Tijuana. Why is there so much violence in Tijuana? The city is characterized by the industry of the kidnapping, drug and human trafficking and the actions of organized crime. And yes, you know about the Tijuana and Sinaloa cartels.

Acapulco, Mexico

One might think that this beautiful Mexican city, on the Pacific coast, It's a vacation retreat. So many classic Mexican movies have been filmed here! But today the story is different and there is a true drug war in its streets.

Especially, in the neighborhoods of the hills where is the territory of the gangs Los Locos or 221. It is said that there are 11 homicides for every hundred thousand people, so it does not have much to envy Tijuana.

Obviously, this new reality has driven away tourism. A shame

Port Moresby, Papua Guinea

He is in New Papua Guinea and the homicide rate is 54 per 100 thousand inhabitants. It must be said that there have been civil unrest and political tensions in the country for a long time. It is not advisable to go out at night and if you are going on a trip anyway, it is best to hire security.

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

The population is around 800 thousand people and the homicide rate is 41.9 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants. The truth is that Central America has never been a peaceful place, civil wars, dictatorships, the United States stuck there all the time, drug trafficking, so when it comes to traveling it is not convenient to do it individually or they are the protection of large hotels or tourist agencies.

San Pedro Sula used to be in 2009 the world capital of homicideso you have to be careful.

Salvador, Brazil

Brazil is a giant of South America but at the same time it is a country with a lot of poverty. Its big cities have very dangerous neighborhoods that tourism does not have to visit. We all hear about the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, but we find the same in other cities.

Salvador it has a homicide rate of 46 per 100 inhabitants. It may be a beautiful city but it is without a doubt one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Other Brazilian cities to be careful with are Natal, Fortaleza, Belem, Vitoria da Conquista, Maceio, Aracaju…

Cali, Colombia

Colombia is another country that one might think of as having dangerous cities and neighborhoods. And so it is. Cali is a well-known Colombian city with more than two and a half million inhabitants. It was home to the Cali cartel until the mid-'90s. And although there is not much talk today, the truth is that organized crime is still very present.

If you don't walk alone through its dangerous neighborhoods, if you are careful at night and you always move around the tourist destinations, there is no problem.

Peabody-Darst-Webbe, Missouri

The Peabody–Darst–Webbe neighborhood is in St. Louis, Missouri, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. In 2020, according to CBC News, St. Louis was the second most dangerous city in the nation, and within it, the most dangerous neighborhood is Peabody-Darst-Webbe, with a rate of violence 1189% higher than the national average.

Tourists can move without problems as long as they do not leave the tourist areas.

Middle East, Baltimore

Baltimore is another city in the United States synonymous with danger and poverty. Its old, abandoned neighborhoods, its social problems, have made one area in particular, the Middle East, especially dangerous.

Its inhabitants have a chance out of 10 per year of being victims of a crime and that represents 340% more than the national average. Here people are super poor and that increases crime.

Fishkorn, Detroit

have you seen Bowling for Columbine?, Michael Moore's documentary on school shootings? Well, he talks about what's going on in Michigan, Detroit. Detroit may have been synonymous with prosperity and car manufacturing, but that's history..

In 2013 he declared his bankruptcy and already accumulates seven decades of violence and poverty. The most dangerous area of ​​the city is Fishkorn where there are robberies and murders all the time.

Scampia, Naples

This neighborhood is in Naples, Italy. It has been one of the largest drug trafficking centers in Europe for years. The gangs are made up of young people who try to attract the attention of the mafia. Let us remember that the Neapolitan Camorra is one of the most important and oldest organized crime groups in Italy, but these young groups are destabilizing the situation of status quo.

These little bands carry 9mm weapons, we are talking about teenage boys, and their symbol is Le Vele, a conglomerate of apartments with brutalist architecture built more than 40 years ago, partly abandoned and partly demolished.

These are just some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the world. Surely you have heard of others, surely in your own city there is one or more areas that should not be visited during the day or at night. It's a shame, it's a catastrophe for social life and it's tremendous to think that if social and economic inequality continues and increases these neighborhoods will continue to emerge like mushrooms.


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