Venezuela's murder rates surpass Colombia's under Hugo Chavez

Venezuela endures 48 murders for every 100,000 people each year. Britain, by contrast, has 2 per 100,000.


In Caracas the official rate is 130 per 100,000, a number which the Investigative Institute of Co-existence and Citizen Security, a think thank dedicated to the study of crime, insists is closer to 166, making Caracas twice as dangerous as Cape Town.

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