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Related: About this forumVenezuela's capital is world's most murderous city
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/29/venezuelas-capital-worlds-most-murderous-city/79508586/LIMA, Peru Just when Venezuelans thought things couldnt get worse, thats exactly what they did.
The capital Caracas has now been ranked as the most murderous city on Earth, according to a new study by Mexican think-tank the Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.
The report calculates that Caracass 3,946 homicides in 2015 gave it a truly terrifying annual homicide rate of 120 per 100,000 residents.
To put that in context, the United States easily the most murderous of Western developed nations has a rate of 4.7, according to the United Nations most recent comparative study (page 126) of national homicide levels, from 2013
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Venezuela's capital is world's most murderous city (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2016
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sabbat hunter
(6,825 posts)1. or to compare
NYC has about 4 times as many people living in it as Caracs. There were only 339 murders in 2015.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)3. 339 is about what you get in one month alone in Caracas
Now you can understand why I decided to leave Venezuela for college.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)5. I don't see myself visiting any time soon for sure nt
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Caracas is in effect now a free-fire zone, thanks in no
small part to Chavez allowing the barrio groups that supported him to get AK 47's and other arms.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)4. I'm quite sure that somewhere in there,
it's the fault of the US/CIA, at least according to our resident chavista cheerleaders.