Popular with tourists in Brazil, Recife is deadly for residents - Soaring homicide rate among the Brazilian city’s poor gets little notice. But a team of journalists is trying to change that.

This seaside city, a favorite with European tourists, gets much more attention for the shark attacks that have killed 18 people since 1992 than for its homicides — at least 2,617 in the metropolitan area last year.

Tourists are warned not to take valuables to the beaches, as in most Brazilian cities, but little is said about the homicide rate, mostly because the violence generally is restricted to the poor areas.

Although Rio de Janeiro’s bloody drug war makes international headlines, the homicide rate in this balmy city of 1.5 million is 90.9 per 100,000, more than twice that of Rio, according to the Latin American Technological Network’s Map of Violence.”*

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