Venezuela's Maduro launches civilian disarmament plan

[7962]

Source: BBC

Speaking on the International Day of Peace, Mr Maduro said his government would invest $47m (£29m) and create 60 new disarmament centres.

According to United Nations figures, Venezuela has the second highest peacetime murder rate in the world after Honduras.

Most of the murders in Venezuela are committed using firearms.

"We are building peace from within, and for that, you need disarmament," the president said at an event in the capital, Caracas.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29308509

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I'm sure it wouldnt have anything to do with the recent protests that have been increasing in number......

[hack89]

1. Of course he won't disarm the militia that answers only to him. Nt

[Archae]

2. This is nothing but PR.

It will do diddly squat to help with fighting crime.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Maybe allowing for the fact I'm UK.....

I don't agree with civilians having guns at all in any country.

[Psephos]

4. The problem isn't that Vz civilians have them, but that Vz criminals have them.

I'll take a wild leap here and predict that the criminals won't be turning their guns in at the disarmament centers.

[7962]

5. Thats fine when you start out with no guns,

but once they're out there, the genie is outta the bottle.

[Nye Bevan]

6. A "guns for toilet paper" exchange program might be very popular there (nt)

[7962]

11. Winner!

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. You mean the protests that largely fizzled out months ago?

[NaturalHigh]

8. Well there's a surprise.

This isn't about peace; it's about having a servile population that fears Maduro.

[madokie]

10. What causes most all the problems in South America

is our meddling in their affairs. Our rich wants what they think is rightly theirs, shit that they stole to begin with and now that the indigenous people are seeing the light the shives of the night are coming out. fuck the American exceptionalism

[snooper2]

17. not really, you going to reply to any of the comments below here?

[madokie]

9. due to our corporations and cia meddling in their affairs either

I'm sure it wouldnt have anything to do with the recent protests that have been increasing in number......

[7962]

12. Yep, the CIA has one helluva payroll!

Amazing how they can pay tens of thousands to take to the streets. Guess its their fault theres no toilet paper too. Or much of anything else.

[Adrahil]

13. Haven't you heard? The CIA has been buying up all the TP just to hurt Maduro! NT

[FLPanhandle]

14. Occam's Razor

Economy is shit. The government is making things worse without any understanding of economic/monetary policy. People's savings and buying power is dropping with extreme inflation. Government mandated Rationing and slipshod price controls leads to black markets by default a criminal class.

So...
1) either the people are getting fed up with a incompetents running the economy into the ground, or

2) there is some secret cabal of US corporations and CIA paid agents fomenting dissent when actually everything is wonderful.

[NickB79]

15. Seeing as how Chavez was passing out AK's like candy

This is quite ironic.

[Bacchus4.0]

16. I am sure it will work as well as their economic model n/t