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Security & Strategic Review - January 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
VENEZUELA: Murder on the rise — but by how much?
At the turn of the year headlines in Venezuelan media proclaimed that the country’s homicide rate had increased in 2014 to 82 per 100,000 inhabitants. The figure had been released on 29 December by the non-governmental Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia (OVV) in its annual report, which said that it had observed a ‘general propensity towards the expansion of violent crime’ across the country, with hitherto safe zones ‘converted into territories of armed bands dedicated to aggression and extortion’. The factual underpinning of this claim is not clear.
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