Attorney General’s UN Gaffe Reveals Venezuela’s Record-High Murder Rate [View all]

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http://panampost.com/thabata-molina/2015/07/07/attorney-generals-un-gaffe-reveals-venezuelas-record-high-murder-rate/


Those who study violence and insecurity in Venezuela are still wondering what Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz could have been thinking when she admitted to the United Nations that the country’s homicide rate is 62 per 100,000 inhabitants.+

The figure places Venezuela as the world’s second most violent country — surpassed by only Honduras, with a rate of 66 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.+

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“It seems that Díaz made the announcement only to rebuke the OVV’s numbers, which puts the homicide rate at 82 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2014. She did it without understanding that a rate of 62 homicides is still outrageous, showing Venezuela’s grave situation,” Briceño León told the PanAm Post.+

“With this rate, the government is admitting that at least 18,600 homicides took place in the country, excluding those who resisted authority, which are not included in the calculations.”+

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“Every kind of crime has surged: homicide, kidnapping, robbery, and theft. The second feature is that the violence that used to be focused in a few cities has spread across the country. Third, criminals have improved their organization; they are better armed and more willing to fight the police,” he adds.+
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Under Ortega Díaz’s watch as attorney general, 98.5 percent of all common crimes went unsolved in 2014. According to last year’s report by her office, only 5,424 crimes out of 351,321 ended in a trial.+