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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 09:48 AM Jan 2014

Crime rates rise in Venezuela

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/04/333009/crime-rates-rise-in-venezuela/


The crime rate is spiraling in Venezuela. Last month saw 494 deaths in the capital, an estimated 65 per cent of which were homicides. Caracas is fast becoming the most dangerous city in the world with over 20,000 deaths reported in the South American country last year.


With an average 71 homicides occurring every day, living in fear of violence is taking its toll on the Venezuelan public.

The majority of Venezuela’s insecurity problems and high murder figures originate from its slums, unplanned areas where the public to police ratio is around three thousand to one.

Due to the minimal police presence the inhabitants of these areas believe it is the gangs who rule supreme rather than Venezuela’s security forces.

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Crime rates rise in Venezuela (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Jan 2014 OP
You just have to understand what's REALLY COLGATE4 Jan 2014 #1
Venezuela moving forward! Bacchus4.0 Jan 2014 #2

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
1. You just have to understand what's REALLY
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 04:53 PM
Jan 2014

happening. These aren't Venezuelan criminal gangs in reality. It's bunches of Colombian criminals who were snuck across the border by the CIA in order to destabilize the Venezulan economy and make the highly intelligent Maduro look bad. Story at 6:00.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
2. Venezuela moving forward!
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 06:22 PM
Jan 2014

Looks like Nicolas didn't send any troops where they need to go whence he militarized the police force. Looks like the crime is very much much comes from the people in the chavista areas. There has to be a point where murders will have to go down despite the government's utter failure to address violence simply due simply to statistical probability. I don't know where that number is though.

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