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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on December 28, 2012, 09:11:25 PM
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Bacchus4.0 (1,031 posts)
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Venezuela murder rate soars
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Source: Telegraph
Venezuela, the most violent country in South America, recorded a new high of 21,692 murders this year along with a surge in kidnappings, prison riots and random shootings.
The number of victims was up by 12 per cent from last year when there were 19,336 deaths, the Venezuelan Violence Observatory said in its annual report.
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The rate is well above neighbouring Columbia, and Mexico which has been engaged in a bloody drug war, and is closing in on Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate.
There are more murders in Venezuela than in the United States and the 27 countries of the European Union combined. In Caracas the murder rate is more than 200 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9769897/Venezuela-murder-rate-soars.html
msongs (29,061 posts)
1. guess I will cancel my spring vacation in Caracas and go to chicago instead nt
It's a gun free zone. You should be safe.
Chicago Soaring Murder Rate Eclipses Last Year’s Total
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Arctic Dave (11,096 posts)
3. Still feeling butthurt because Chavez won.
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I think they have a cream for that.
MicaelS (4,191 posts)
10. Nah, because too many here subscribe to the Cult of Hugo.
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Just proves that the "Cult of Personality" still exists in this day and age.
Chavez is a ****ing saint, and can do no wrong.
His time is coming to an end.
Archae (24,941 posts)
11. Yeah, Saint Hugo's socialist paradise is like so many other South American countries.
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Government cronies are so corrupt they stink on ice.
If you threw a rock into the country it would land near a dope smuggler.
Propaganda is rampant, telling everyone how wonderful life is.
kelliekat44 (555 posts)
12. We are on track to overtake them within the next 5 years. nt
NickB79 (8,703 posts)
13. Not unless there's a civil war or something
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The US has roughly 11X the population of Venezuela; we'd need to see over 200,000 murders per year in the US to match their rate. Right now there are approximately 16,000 murders in the US every year.
C'mon now. Let's not forget the suicides.
NickB79 (8,703 posts)
14. 21,000 murders out of 28 million people
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Christ, that's equivalent to the US losing over 200,000 people per year.
It would be like an entire large city being wiped off the map year after year after year.
Couldn't we up the numbers a little bit.
One year Chicago. One year Boston. One year Detroit. One year San Francisco...
This is the first anti Hugo thread that Judi Lynn hasn't jumped in and reamed the Hugo hater a new asshole.
The whole Communist continent can do no wrong in her eyes.
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Don't need no stinking judi lynn, when artic dave is around.
His butt-hurt comment started a funny exchange.
Response to Arctic Dave (Reply #3)
Fri Dec 28, 2012, 04:14 PM
Bacchus4.0 (1,031 posts)
4. no, I knew he would win and predicted it
I am sure you will be butthurt once he croaks though.
That's when the fight started. :lmao: