tue 29 dec 2015, 13:50

Venezuela saves ‘moordrecord’

CARACAS –

Venezuela is now the most dangerous country of Latin America. It has this year, a sad record achieved with approximately 27.875 people who have a violent death died. This reported the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence. That suggests that Venezuela, with more than 90 deaths by violence per 100,000 inhabitants in the Central American Honduras overtakes.

Photo: AP

In 2014, the observatory is still ‘only’ 24.980 killings in the economically stagnated country of over 33 million inhabitants. Of all the approximately 145.000 murders in all of Latin America and the Caribbean, in 2015, 19 percent in Venezuela committed.

The least violent country in South America is Chile. That has about three homicides per 100,000 inhabitants and that is still more than three times as much as in our country.