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Security & Strategic Review - January 2017 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Venezuela: As violence surges, Maduro rolls out umpteenth security plan
According to latest estimates by the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), there were 28,479 ‘violent deaths’ in the country in 2016. That equates to a startling homicide rate of a 91.8 per 100,000 inhabitants. By way of comparison, the global homicide rate last year was put at an average of 8.9 per 100,000. The OVV estimated a similar homicide rate in 2015 (90 per 100,000), making Venezuela one of most murderous countries in the world and the most violent in all of Latin America. It is now worse than the gang-ridden El Salvador in Central America (where the homicide rate in 2016 was put at 81.2 by the national police, down from 100 in 2015). And the capital district of Caracas is now considered more deadly than ‘the most violent city in the world’, San Pedro Sula in Honduras, with an estimated homicide rate of 138 per 100,000.
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