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INFORME ALTERNATIVO SOBRE LA SALUD EN AMERICA LATINATABLE 5DISTRIBUTION OF THE NUMBER OF SUICIDES, BY SELECTED AGE GROUPS, IN WOMENAND MEN, URUGUAY 1990 AND 199GROUP YEAR15-19 Y20-24 Y25-29 Y30-34 Y35-39 Y40-44 Y45-49 Y50-54 Y1990 M1623191620201921F265478551998 M2524393117353529F31196414116Source: Dajas, F.Alta tasa de suicidio en Uruguay. Rev. Med. Uruguay; 17:27. Figura 4. Elaboración A. Campaña.ciated to the Mexican crisis- it recommences its ascension,approaching 11,5% in 1995 [Spremolla, 2001].Recently, with the South Cone crisis it has climbed to13,6% in 2000, and a dramatic 18,6% in 2003.Considering that the rate of suicide in the agegroup of 15 to 19 years has increased from 2,6 in 1985to 9,9 per 100.000 in 1996, as indicated by a digitalsupplement of Diario El País in May of 2004 [Szalmian,2004], we support [Dajas, 2002] and other authors arecorrect to advocate the need for family affectionatesupport as an ultimate originator of the psychologicaland suicidal behavior within adolescents and youngpeople. In addition, this quantitative evidences mustbe related to process of fast impoverishment and socialprivation, that Uruguayan families experienced duringthe last decades, all which evolved into a diminishingcapacity to provide for the necessary social andemotional stability that children and adolescents requirefor their mental development. Returning to Table3, we can see the affects that poverty has from1999 to 2003, within the three youngest groups, as itmoved from values of roughly 30 per 100 to 57 in thegroup of younger than six years old; to 50, in the groupfrom six to twelve; and to 43, in the group from thirteento seventeen.It is not in vain to point out that according to datafrom the National Institute of Statistics, the numberof divorces registered increased from 4.611 in 1987, ayear before the beginning of a long economic recession,to 9.800 in 1991.This number had an importantdecrease, though not under 5.700 until 1997, a year inwhich poverty involved already 23,9% of the Uruguayansand statistics radically increased to 8.347 divorces,and in 2001 and 2002, the number of divorces was7.409 and 6.761 respectively [INEC, 1987-2002].Overlooking the most appalling years, this signifies thatdivorces increased by 46,6% in Uruguay between 1987and 2002 despite the fact that there were departments,such as Maldonado, where a number of divorcesincreased by 158% in 2002, compared to 1987. Letus remember that Maldonado’s population shiftedfrom 13,1% poor people in 2000 to 27% poor peoplein 2002, as a result of the Argentinean debacle and thereduction of tourists.Let us now look at the Ecuadorian situation. Thiscountry rich in petroleum and resources, such as sh-162