WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
England captain Wayne Rooney made his 100th appearance last weekend but former England star Chris Waddle claims that it’s easier to win caps now than it was in previous generations. Wesley Stephenson asks whether Waddle is right and how many caps would greats like Bobby Moore, Maradona and Pele have won if they’d played in today’s era. Plus the programme hears from Professor Carlos Vilalta from the University of California San Diego and Steven Dudley from Insight Crime about claims that “98% of homicides in Mexico are unsolved.” An amazing statistic but is it true? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:09.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use |
| 0:13.0 | go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Wesley Stevenson. |
| 0:24.0 | There's been shock and outrage about reports |
| 0:27.0 | that 43 students in Mexico have gone missing |
| 0:30.0 | and are presumed to have been murdered. |
| 0:32.0 | And it was a statistic in a story about the students' disappearance |
| 0:36.0 | that led one of our listeners, Trent Hutton, to contact us. |
| 0:39.0 | An article on the Huffington Post website said that roughly 98% of murders in Mexico were unsolved. |
| 0:46.0 | At first glance, that might seem like an incredibly high number. |
| 0:50.0 | Can it be true? |
| 0:51.0 | Our reporter Keith Moore has been investigating. |
| 0:53.0 | So Keith, what do you found out? |
| 0:56.0 | The first thing to mention is Mexico's murder rate of 21.5 murders per 100,000 people. |
| 1:02.0 | That's much higher than the US at 4.7 per 100,000. |
| 1:06.0 | And also every country in Europe. |
| 1:08.0 | However, it is still behind 20 other countries and way behind Honduras, |
| 1:13.0 | which has a murder rate of 90 per 100,000. |
| 1:16.0 | I spoke to Carlos Villalta, who is a visiting fellow at the Centre for US Mexican Studies |
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