Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Venezuela more deadly than Iraq

In Iraq there is about the same population as Venezuela there were 4,644 deaths from violence in 2009. In Iraq the body count is about 16,000 and Mexico drug war has clamied fewer lives Venezuela have increased in statistics the locals are hidding in there homes, behind walls, and hired security experts to protect them. Ever since presdent Hugo Chavez took office in 1999 there have been over 118,541 deaths and still counting. In 2007 Venezuela had over 43,792 deaths and 30,000 of them were to drug realted. In Venezuela history the number of homicides in 2009 was three times as more deaths then any year. In Mexico the polices salery went down and alot of them are being laid off that means more crimes and more murders. Out of 100 deaths only 3 of the murders were cought and put in jail but the other 97 are still unsloved. In 2009 presdent Chavez had created a national guard for mexico and in the past year the death rate had went down by 2,500 deaths.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/americas/23venez.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&emc=Google-Earth&no_interstitial

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