**The item below is from today's Dallas Morning News. I haven't looked at the website of the Pan-American Health Org. but the thing that caught my eye was Cali, when I would have guessed Medellín**
According to the Pan-American Health Organization, Caracas ranks per capita as the second-deadliest city in the hemisphere, behind Cali, Colombia.
"The difference is, there are guerrillas and war in Colombia, and our people are dying only because of unchecked, violent crime," said Ivan Simonovis, a corporate security specialist and former chief of special operations for the Technical Judicial Police, Venezuela's equivalent of the FBI