Security & Strategic Review - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

With public insecurity among the top campaign issues raised by the opposition in Venezuela, the government has been trying, unsuccessfully, to play down data and episodes that give the impression that it is not in control of the situation. It has sought to divert attention from evidence (some of it from official sources) that the homicide rate is far worse than the government admits, with the launch of a new anticrime plan less than six months before the elections. It has also sought to pass off as a mere ‘situation of tension’ what several sources have been reporting as the worst eruption of violence in a prison so far this year.

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