Politics Caracas tops the list of the five cities in the world with the highest rates of "brutal and murderous violence." The city of 3.2 million people has a rate of 130 homicides for every 100,000 residents, according to official statistics published in the review Foreign Policy (FP).

According to FP, the other four capital cities are Cape Town, South Africa, with a rate of 62 murders for every 100,000 of its residents; New Orleans, United States, with a rate of 67 to 95 murders for every 100,000; Moscow, with a rate of 9.6 for every 100,000 residents and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, with a rate of 54 for every 100,000 inhabitants.

"Caracas has become in recent years far more dangerous than any other South American city, surpassing even the once notorious criminal rates of Bogota, Colombia," said the article published in the magazine, Efe reported.