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Security & Strategic Review August 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
VENEZUELA: Embarrassing focus on hidden rise of violent crime
The publication of a gruesome photograph by an opposition newspaper
lured Venezuelan officialdom into getting a court to impose a pre-election gag
order on media reportage of violence, only to lift its broadest provisions in
the face of widespread outrage at home and abroad. This faux pas rebounded on
the government by attracting worldwide attention to the fact that it has been
suppressing official data which shows Venezuela rising to the top echelon of
Latin America's murder league.
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