Livid over crime, some Venezuelans resort to mob justice

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Source: Yahoo News

VALENCIA/CARACAS (Reuters) - When a man they believed to be a thief sneaked into their parking lot in the Venezuelan city of Valencia, angry residents caught him, stripped him and beat him with fists, sticks and stones.

They tied him up and doused him in gasoline, according to witnesses, in one of what rights groups and media reports say are an increasing number of mob beatings and lynchings in a country ravaged by crime.

That August night, as locals say is common, three people had sneaked into Valencia's Kerdell residential block. In past such break-ins, thieves have made off with car tires, batteries and radios.

But this time, one resident spotted the trespassers and alerted other neighbors, according to the witnesses.
"'Kill him, give it to him,' they shouted," recounted Trina Castro, 82, in this once middle-class and peaceful area that is now plagued with garbage and graffiti. One reads: "Get ready, thief, here we burn you. Regards, Kerdell."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/livid-over-crime-venezuelans-resort-mob-justice-181843197.html

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And it will sadly get worse as the failures of their government continue

[Archae]

1. Can't blame this on the CIA or Columbia either...

[Bacchus4.0]

12. Someone will nt

[Archae]

13. Of course.

Maduro is a leftist, so he can do no wrong!

I saw this with Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and others.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. glad he wasn't burned

[MADem]

3. Most crimes, including murder, go unsolved in VZ. The police are a joke. They exist to subjugate

the population and maintain order in favor of the regime. They do not exist to protect or serve the population.

[secondwind]

4. My friends' son, 40-something years old, went to Venezuela in March of 2013, he was involved in a

real-estate deal, and they never saw him alive again.. he was thrown from the balcony of a high-rise, and it took months to get any information from the State Department. I don't see these folks very often, and I'm not even sure if his body was ever returned to the United States.

[MADem]

6. It is BAD down there. What possessed that poor fellow to get involved in any "deal"

down there? The place has been a failed state for awhile.

He'd probably have been safer in Somalia.

[Monk06]

5. Maduro has proved to be spectacularly incompetent. He should step down before Venezuela

collapses completely.

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8. He will have to be overthrown. I doubt he'll ever allow a real election.

He's getting his cut of the countries money, as well as his friends. These guys rarely leave on their own.

[freshwest]

7. This is awful. What do the two different sides have to say? n/t

[closeupready]

9. Gangs and organized crime grow in societies where corruption and

civil lawlessness are high.

[snooper2]

10. So when a coup happens our friendly Maduro supporters will be re-writing history again eh?

The CIA set him up for failure and now they installed a right wing military dictator!

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11. You should copywrite that; it will likely be used at some point!