Venezuela now has more murders than Colombia - despite its neighbour being officially at war against Marxist guerillas. Venezuela now has more murders than Colombia - despite its neighbour being officially at war against Marxist guerillas. Venezuela endures 48 murders for every 100,000 people each year. Britain, by contrast, has 2 per 100,000. In Caracas the official rate is 130 per 100,000, a number which the Investigative Institute of Co-existence and Citizen Security, a think thank dedicated to the study of crime, insists is closer to 166, making Caracas twice as dangerous as Cape Town. It is not just murders...