BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 150 Brazilians were murdered
each day last year on average, putting Brazil on a par with some war
zones in terms of its homicide rate, the Justice Ministry said on Monday.
Some 55,000 Brazilians died of homicide in 2005 -- a few thousand more
civilians than in three years of war in Iraq, according to leading
estimates.
Brazil, a continent-sized nation of 185 million people starkly divided
into rich and poor, has had notoriously high crime rates for years.
Millions of poor live in urban slums and unpoliced rural areas where
guns are easy to come by.
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