Wow, this article about Brazil mentions the USVI murder rate - YIKES <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/cloud.gif" alt="" /> Is it that dangerous these days?


In 2011, Brazil, now home to 194 million people, recorded 51,198 homicides, ranked seventh among the world's most violent nations after El Salvador, the US Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala.