LatinNews Daily Report - 07 March 2014

POLITICS | Homicides up 10% year-on-year to 2,841 in first two months, claims opposition daily. Citing preliminary figures said to be from sources at Venezuela’s main policy agency, Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (Cicpc), the opposition daily El Universal on 7 March reported that homicides in the first two months of 2014 came to 2,841, up just over 10% on the 2,576 registered in the same period of 2013, which if correct would suggest that 48 people a day were murdered in Venezuela in January and February. The report says that Caracas morgues took in 914 corpses in the first two months, compared to 806 in the same period of last year. However, there is no official confirmation of this data and the Venezuelan government accuses the opposition media of misreporting the figures, for instance by counting every corpse in a morgue as a murder victim.

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