Article
Spanish
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Abstract
Summary: In the logic of the rankings, Paraguay is a peaceful country where crime does not represent a serious problem as in other Latin American nations; however, in some of its departments violence rates are only compared with those in the most violent territories in the region. This article seeks to identify the conditions of sufficiency that make it possible to explain why certain Paraguayan departments are significantly more violent than others. This compares nine of them, dividing them between the most and the least violent. The main findings show that those with the most accidental terrain and where effective state coverage is hindered, are the ones that concentrate the highest homicide rates, and that, in contrast to the situation in countries such as Mexico, political coordination between the national and subnational governments has an inverse correlation with what has been put forward in theory.