Despite the ongoing violence plaguing the city, a new report did not name Chicago as one of its most violent cities in the world. 
 
 The rankings were published by the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security, and Caracas was named the most violent city in the world for 2015. The Venezuelan country saw nearly 4,000 homicides with more than 300,000 inhabitants, according to the report. That breaks down to 119.87 homicides per 100,000 people. 
 
 Caracas pushed San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to second place, according to the agency. San Pedro Sula had been named the world’s most violent city for four years straight. In 2015, the city saw a “significant decline” in the number of homicides, with a total of 885 people killed. 
 
 Overall, 41 of the 50 cities on the most violent list are in Latin America, according to the report. Twenty-one of the cities were located in Brazil, the most out of any country. 
 
 Four cities in the U.S. were named on the list, St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, and New Orleans, respectively, according to the report. 
 
 The highest increase in homicides was seen in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, according to the rankings. The city had a more than 81 percent increase in homicides, with a total of 1,918 killings. 
 
 Here is the full list of the 50 most violent cities of 2015, according to the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security: 
 
 ||||| Police officers patrolling in the Nordeste de Amaralina slum complex in Salvador, Bahia State, in 2013. Reuters Latin America holds the undesirable distinction of having the most cities on the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security's annual ranking of the world's most violent cities. 
 
 Of the 50 cities on the list, 41 are in Latin America, including 21 in Brazil. 
 
 The lion's share of the elevated violence in the region is due to drug trafficking supplemented with gang wars, political instability, and the deregulation of economies triggering widespread poverty. 
 
 "Narcotics are the biggest black market earner of all. Estimated to be worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year, the global industry has pumped huge resources into criminal empires decade after decade," wrote Ioan Grillo the author of "Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America." 
 
 "So that amount of money, $100 billion a year, 10 years, a trillion dollars, 30 years, $3 trillion. That amount of money pumps in these organizations ... buying more guns, paying more assassins, bribing more police, bribing more politicians ... and that is why the region right now, Latin American and the Caribbean, are at a boiling point," Grillo told Business Insider. 
 
 The council's ranking contains cities with populations of more than 300,000 and does not count deaths in combat zones or cities with unavailable data, so some dangerous cities may not be represented on the list.
– A shred of good news for the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula: It had been named the world's most violent city four straight years by the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security, but it moves to No. 2 behind Caracas in 2015, reports NBC News. Latin America on the whole has little to celebrate, with 41 cities on the top-50 list, based on homicides per 100,000 residents. Brazil alone has 21 entrants, per Business Insider, while the US has four, with St. Louis ranking highest at 15th, followed by Baltimore (19), Detroit (28), and New Orelans (32). The top 10: Caracas, Venezuela San Pedro Sula, Honduras San Salvador, El Salvador Acapulco, Mexico Maturin, Venezuela Distrito Central, Honduras Valencia, Venezuela Palmira, Colombia Cape Town, South Africa Cali, Colombia NBC has the full list here.