Lost Remote has a great entry about the recent uproar over two murders in Aruba. They compare Aruba's muder-per-capita rate with other places in the hemisphere.
Last year in Aruba there were two murders - possibly just one, depending on which stat you believe. We'll go with two anyway. No tourists were killed. That's a murder rate on Aruba of a little over 2 per 100,000, but we'll call it an even 2. Or look at it this way: The Aruba murder rate is .0002.Still, you can't go a minute without hearing about Natalee and you're worried. Maybe you're switching your vacation from Aruba to Jamaica. Bring some Kevlar. Murder rate: 32 per 100,000.
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