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Brazil: violence priced into markets
You might expect that if war broke out on the streets of a country’s second-largest city, streets were littered with burning vehicles, and a thousands-strong military invasion was required to restore a...
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Rio governor looks to turn the page on crime
Fresh off declaring victory in the battle between government forces and organized crime for control of Rio de Janiero’s favelas, state governor Sérgio Cabral (pictured) was on the road this week to...
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Karachi: the business cost of violence
Pakistan’s main stock market may have given some comfort to equity investors on Monday when the main KSE-100 index rose just below one per cent on its first day of trade following the post Ramadan...
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Venezuela: counting the cost of crime
It is no secret that Venezuela is hardly the most business friendly country in the world, with a president who habitually takes pleasure in grabbing private property, while a maze of government...
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Brazil’s pre-carnival carnage
These first two weeks of February are normally those during which the mood in Brazil picks up ahead of carnival. But in the booming state of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, the situation is anything but...
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Maruti riot: awful but isolated?
The factory riot that has hit India’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, has seen the company’s share price take a battering. Down over 5 per cent on Monday trading, the company had already seen a fall...
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Maruti violence: ideology vs discontent
Auto workers’ deadly attack on managers and supervisors at a factory of India’s biggest car-maker Maruti Suzuki last week has created tremendous unease among Indian corporate executives. The question...
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Nigerian violence: counting the cost
Nigeria has been so repeatedly afflicted by acts of violence by sectarian groups, as well as Islamist movement Boko Haram, that pouring through news reports, it’s hard to get a handle on the situation....
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Why India’s gang rape four should not get the death sentence
A fast track Delhi court is expected to hand down sentences on Friday to four men convicted of December’s gang rape of a trainee physiotherapist. [update: the men have been sentenced to hang] It is a...
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Guest post: Iraq on the brink? Markets tell a different story
By Mark DeWeaver and Ali Albazzaz (l) The steadily worsening security situation in Iraq has led many to wonder whether the country is once again descending into anarchy. A recent New York Times...
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Murder in Venezuela: from bad to worse
More tragic news from the frontline of Venezuela’s crime scene: the murder in front of their five year-old daughter of Mónica Spear, a former beauty queen and soap opera star, and her British-born...
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Killings by Maoist rebels underline threat to India’s poll
An estimated 16 people were killed by Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. The threat of violent clashes generally rises when the world’s largest democracy goes to the...
View ArticleA letter from a correspondent no longer in Venezuela
From Jason Mitchell I am a British freelance journalist who has been based in the city of Merida in the Venezuelan Andes for the past three and a half years. On Thursday last week I was forced to leave...
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Guest post: enough is enough!
By José Antonio Meade Kuribreña It is mind-blowing that in the 21st century, sexual violence is still used as a tactic of war. Every year, thousands of people become victims of this heinous practice....
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Violent cities need whole-government solutions
Like thousands of viewers and many critics worldwide, I have a new addiction: the Netflix series Narcos, depicting the building of a transnational criminal empire run from Colombia by the world’s most...
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