UN Calls on Latin American Countries to Provide Security for Citizens Joseph A. Cambra - Xinhua
go to original October 29, 2013

A UN official has called on Latin American countries to battle insecurity and ensure security for their people, according to a news release in Mexico City on Monday.

“Insecurity is another gap in the region that must be narrowed to achieve development,” Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Barcena said when addressing an event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Declaration on Security in Latin America, held at the Organization of American States’ headquarters in Washington.

“The privatization of security, paradoxically, leads to greater levels of general insecurity. The security of a few is always insecurity for those who are excluded,” she said.

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