Photographer Daniel Le Clair, born in the USA but with long experience in Central America, decided to approach a scaring reality: the crime wave hitting Guatemala, the Latin America country more stormed by street violence.
A research by the Interamerican Bank of Development points that 55% of Guatemalan homes has suffered some sort of crime in the last 12 months.
The murders statistics are dramatic: in average more than 3 people are killed every day in a city of hardly 2,5...
more »Photographer Daniel Le Clair, born in the USA but with long experience in Central America, decided to approach a scaring reality: the crime wave hitting Guatemala, the Latin America country more stormed by street violence.
A research by the Interamerican Bank of Development points that 55% of Guatemalan homes has suffered some sort of crime in the last 12 months.
The murders statistics are dramatic: in average more than 3 people are killed every day in a city of hardly 2,5 million inhabitants, a total of 1,185 crimes just in the year 1993
Contributor of Archivolatino.com and photographer for Reuters, Le Clair accompanied during one week the criminal news in the capital city of Guatemala.
He came with a stunning and deeply emotional photographic document.
Besides the crimes by young gangs, a real lash in Central America, the daily violence in the streets includes robberies, drug traffic and violations.
Meanwhile, the government tries to minimize the problem: the police was purified several times without being able to eradicate corruption. Just 1 percent of the murders finally ends in a trial, with some kind of punishment
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