Venezuela's capital is world's most murderous city

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/29/venezuelas-capital-worlds-most-murderous-city/79508586/


LIMA, Peru — Just when Venezuelans thought things couldn’t get worse, that’s exactly what they did.

The capital Caracas has now been ranked as the most murderous city on Earth, according to a new study by Mexican think-tank the Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.

The report calculates that Caracas’s 3,946 homicides in 2015 gave it a truly terrifying annual homicide rate of 120 per 100,000 residents.

To put that in context, the United States — easily the most murderous of Western developed nations — has a rate of 4.7, according to the United Nations’ most recent comparative study (page 126) of national homicide levels, from 2013

[sabbat hunter]

1. or to compare

NYC has about 4 times as many people living in it as Caracs. There were only 339 murders in 2015.

[Marksman_91]

3. 339 is about what you get in one month alone in Caracas

Now you can understand why I decided to leave Venezuela for college.

[Bacchus4.0]

5. I don't see myself visiting any time soon for sure nt

[COLGATE4]

2. Caracas is in effect now a free-fire zone, thanks in no

small part to Chavez allowing the barrio groups that supported him to get AK 47's and other arms.

[GGJohn]

4. I'm quite sure that somewhere in there,

it's the fault of the US/CIA, at least according to our resident chavista cheerleaders.