Venezuela with one of the world’s highest murder rates, according to official data

Tuesday, August 24th 2010 - 05:15 UTC

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Venezuela registered 19,133 murders in 2009, which places the rate of homicides in the country at 75 for every 100,000 inhabitants, according to a study by the National Statistics Institute, or INE, cited Friday by the press. Read full article

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JoseAngeldeMonterrey
We may not be the leaders in Mexico but we are catching up real fast!
Aug 24th, 2010 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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katraskin II
Jose, the way we're doing here soon we'll be members of the same club. Is not that we have irresponsible handling of the fight against crime. There is not any handling. What we need is zero tolerance with crime, but nowadays it isn't “politically correct”
Aug 24th, 2010 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sergio Vega
Unffortunately, this “politically correct way” in these days is wrong and is managed by people that think that the “human rights” cover only the offenders rights instead the victims rights which must be preferent.
Because that wrong concept the death penalty has been deleted in the most of the western countries, even they speak about a correspondance between the fault and the penalty (5 years in prission for a murder???).
In Chile, last years it has been incresaing the violence against persons and goods due a light policy on crime penalties. I hope our new goverment will make harder laws and the “zero tolerance ” will be a new “politically correct way” to face the crime.
BTW, the same level of crimes and desorders were suffered in Chile during the Unidad Popular regime between 1970-73 because the society and economy were destroyed by a very bad management of the government on those days that leade us to an almost civil war and a long military regime.
Venezuela has the opportunity to get back and change it fate and I hope they take it.
Aug 24th, 2010 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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