This is very serious ! Venezuela is the second most dangerous country in the world With an estimated 82 murders per 100,000 rate, Venezuela will close the year in second place in the world rankings homicide, second only to Honduras. The figure is part of the projections of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (SVO), an NGO in Caracas on Monday presented its 2014 report. The organization estimates that this year there have been 24,980 homicides in Venezuela (30 million), 68 per day. The number is obtained by applying mathematical models of projection on a database that feeds NGOs for years to official reports obtained through informal channels, monitor media reports and reporting firsthand. The director of the SVO, sociologist Roberto Briceño-León said by telephone COUNTRY their numbers may have a margin of error of 5% to 10% over the actual number of homicides. Meet foreseeable critical government to report their organization, replies: Best denied that the government can make our figures is open official archives. Since 2004 the government has banned the police and other state agencies disseminate statistics on violent deaths and crime. Data collected by the organization, already alarming, representing an increase of 4% compared to 2013, when the same observatory calculated a rate of 79 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, with a total of 24,763. The increased violence is perceived in the overwhelming presence of crime in everyday life. A virtual curfew is imposed on cities, where public life has been reduced by the fear of crime. The government avoided the issue for years, even though the bulk of homicides committed in the poor areas of cities, strongholds of the electoral base of Chavez. The rise of crime which precedes the revolutionary process, but that has exploded in the last 15 years threatens to deny the social achievements that official figures claim. Hugo Chavez spoke very rarely the subject, always at the end of his life. His former Director of Intelligence and recently ousted former Minister of Interior, General Miguel Rodríguez Torres, went on to state that public concern about crime was indeed a sense of insecurity fueled by the opposition media with conspiratorial purposes. But the reality remains committed to belie. On Friday, the government opened a morgue to Caracas, which replaces the previous one, always congested. In December alone, 364 violent deaths corpses arrived at the morgue of the capital. In 2014, 250 police officers were killed nationwide -130 in Caracas, admitted a few days ago on Twitter Presidential Commissioner for Police Reform itself, Freddy Bernal. And if the thugs kill the cops, the cops come to kill criminals, explains the director of SVO. In 2014 more than 3,000 deaths were reported by way of resisting arrest. It is a significant figure shows that neither the police rely on justice in Venezuela . Briceño-León stresses that, contrary to the official discourse, are neither poverty nor exclusion but impunity, destruction of institutions and breaking the social contract regulating coexistence catalysts homicidal violence. If not, the researcher asks, How do you explain that it was during higher oil revenues in Venezuelan history, and just at the moment, according to official figures the government reduced social inequality, when we experience the strongest growth in the homicide rate? . The sociologist fears, however, that the economic crisis that began in 2014 and promises to intensify in 2015 encourages a boom in what he calls amateur crime.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:18:14 +0000
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