Posted on 10/12/2008 5:50:48 PM PDT by pissant
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 that are on the increase, but kidnappings as well. In 1998, when President Hugo Chavez took power, there were 50 registered kidnappings per year. Last year there were 382 registered, though experts believe the majority of abductions go unreported.
Many kidnappings occur along the border with Colombia, once the kidnap capital of the world. Many of those kidnapped in the border area are believed held by Colombian rebels, for whom Mr Chavez has expressed support.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Wait until this country gets its own Marxist dictator.
Where dose Chicago stand ;-))
I seem to remember Caracas having a relatively low crime rate during the 1970s and early 1980s. SW, you were there, I believe, at the time.
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