Which is safer, USA or south america?

Question

southamerican like mexico, brazil, colombia

for guns shooting, kidnap, burgler

Answer 1

There is no safe place is this crazy world.

Answer 2

Mexico is in North America, not south.

But still, USA is much, much safer then any of the countries you mentioned.

Answer 3

USA but I want to visit Brazil.... Mexico and Colombia are so unsafe :(

Answer 4

If you compare US with all South America; then South America is much safer than the US. You need to take into account that the US is a very big country and therefore the crime rate is quite high compared to individual south american countries.

These countries in particular are dangerous in some parts but  not everywhere. Lots of kidnappings in Mexico DF (not in provinces), Colombia has a problem with guerillas and drugs, Brazil has Rio and the famous favelas (shanty towns) with violence going on.

However, the violence in the US is both internal and external as right now it is the target of international terrorism, while the violence in SOME of these south american countries is just internal.

Without being rude, I have to say it is much safer in any south american country right now than in the US. Although in this global world, you are not safe 100% anywhere.

Answer 5

well it really depends on how you look at it. Colombia has a lot of kidnapped people by the guerilla groups. Nontheless thay have done so through the years and the kidnapping rate has dropped significantly.

Nontheless, southamerica is not a part of a war like USA is, so USA could have some inevitable attack or something. For example, I've never seen in latin america a gun shooting in schools like Columbine and others of that nature or the sniper case.....I agree with the first answer that said that nowhere in the world is really safe.

Answer 6

Although I love L.A. and plan to move there once I'm done with school... I must say the U.S. is a heck of a lot safer.

Unless you are planning to move to the ghetto, the chances of being robbed, shoot, or kidnaped are relatively low in the US. Because of so much poverty and desperation in L.A. robberies and kidnappings are a lot higher but strangely enough murder is not.  There are actually a lot more murders here in the US than in most parts of the world.

Answer 7

Mexico is very very unsafe

Brazil has its good and bad parts/People say Rio is unsafe

Colombia, it depends

Answer 8

The answers to this question really cracks me up but I must put my two cents in..

Which is safer???  The US...  Duh!

And I say this with having spent over 2 years in every country in Latin America except Paraguay, the 3 Guyanas, El Salvador, and Belize.

I am absolutely in love with all things latin american.  And I would argue in a second the thousands of people that try to portray Latin America as being "too dangerous" to visit.

BUT, let's get real.....  outside of a few large cities in the US most people don't have to live with bars on the windows. (and I even saw this in some places in Latin America on 5 floor windows with no visible way for someone to get to them without looooong ladders)

Compared to the US kidnapping is rampant in Venezuela and Colombia...  Although there seemed to be more guns in Central Ameica than South America, I would still definately say more in South America than the US...

Answer 9

nowhere in the world is safe

Answer 10

Mexico is in North America.......

Brazil and Colombia have their rat traps just like NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Phoenix, LA & SFO.... Which is safer is too general a question. I suppose if you were doing the tourist thing and fall and get hurt in Brazil or Colombia you'd get taken to the hospital - no questions asked. If this happend to you at the washington Monument or at the Presidio in San Francisco and you didn't have insurance you'd be up a creek with out a paddle.

If you got lost one night in one of the many US's "bad" neighborhoods you could probably kiss your ars goodbye - and of course the same holds for South American countries too.

Bascially what I'm trying to say is that anywhere you go in the world, from 1st world to 4th world countries, you're going to run into safe & unsafe, good and bad.