Despite representing just 8% of the world’s population, the region accounts for nearly one-third of global homicides.
Breaking Latin America’s Cycle of Low Growth and Violence
North and Sub-Saharran Africa are poorer than Latin America but have much less murder going on. What’s going on in Latin America?
No that was a generalization, not specifically in the context of OP. Life definitely doesn’t have the same value to all individuals as u/Zwuzelmaus claims. That is NOT specifically related to Latin America.
Regarding that read my response in the main thread.