Colombia: October 3, 2004

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Major crime is down. The yearly average for kidnappings used to be 3,000, but dropped to 2,200 last year and is continuing to drop. Death by violence also declined 18 percent last year (to 33.206). Murders, at 22,199, dropped 22 percent from the previous year.  

 

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