Venezuela's government says it had 48 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants last year

[Bacchus39]

http://www.startribune.com/world/115617154.html

Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say they recorded 48 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants last year, making it one of the most dangerous places in South America.

Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami didn't report the actual number of slayings during a debate in the National Assembly on Tuesday. But he said the average was above the norm for the region, and called it "a very high rate."

A report for the United Nations last year put the homicide rate for South America as a whole around 20 per 100,000 people.

President Hugo Chavez's government has not released comprehensive statistics for five years, but officials said previously there were more than 12,000 murders in the first 11 months of 2010.

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government reported figures so I assume they are an inaccurate with the actual rate being higher.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Nearly as bad

as Louisiana @ 52.

[ChangoLoa]

2. You must be joking, Venezuela = 48 and Louisiana = 10.7

Louisiana = 10.7 homicides per 100,000 people (2009)

Homicides in 2009 = 486

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2009/crime2009

Go to Homicides > Expanded homicide data tables > Table 20 "Murder, by State, Types of Weapons, 2009"

Population = 4,533,372

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/index.php

486*100,000/4,533,372 = 10.72


Proportionally, 350% more homicides in Venezuela... even if Louisiana is one of the most violent States in the US.

How dare Americans complain about violence in their country, right?!
It has to be the far right MSM trying to destabilize Obama...
:sarcasm:

[joshcryer]

3. Good thing the United States releases this data freely.

Any links to Venezuela state-compile stats like this?