Remember when Guatemala was going to finish 2013 with 200 more homicides than last year?

Remember when Guatemala was going to finish 2013 with 200 more homicides than last year? Well, given a pretty non-homicidal November, the difference is now 136 when using INACIF's autopsy data. Taking Guatemala's population growth into consideration, it is becoming increasingly likely that the 2013 homicide rate per 100,000 Guatemalans will end up being the same as that of 2012.

Carlos Mendoza also recently posted a geographic representation of the homicide rate for women in Guatemala.

The map overlaps pretty well with homicides in general, don't you think? The borders with El Salvador and Honduras, the Caribbean coast, and Peten.

Two men were found guilty and sentenced to over one hundred years in jail for the murders of two women and two young girls in January.