Feeds XMLVenezuela is now "officially" the safest place on earth
By Guillermo Casanova on May 29, 2008 | In Politics, Opinion, Venezuela, News | Send feedback »
Yesterday, the Interior Minister of Venezuela, Rodriguez Chacín, announced that the media in Venezuela lie and that there are “almost” no murders or violent killings in our capital city, Caracas; he said, very sure of what he was stating, that most deaths are now because of accidents or suicides…
He also said that unfortunately, that record was broken because of the murder of an indigent the day before. Note that he was sorry for the statistics being altered, he never showed any empathy because of the death of the “recogelatas”, usually indigents who live on collecting aluminum cans and selling them for a living.
But unfortunately, it is not the media that lies. The government is the one trying to cover up reality.
The media, for the first time in history, is not allowed to cover what happens in Caracas’s main morgue; they have been barred from that horrendous and extremely busy place.
The media has to rely on what the daily crime report given by the government says. And to prove that the report is simply a lie, you only have to check yesterday’s report. It says that there were two murders in Caracas, that’s it.
But if you check the press, you will find that there are more than that, one newspaper, El Universal, reports another one not mentioned by the police report. El Nacional reports two violent deaths. La Voz de Guarenas, another newspaper, reports one more. A “socialist” newspaper subsided and loyal to the government, reports another one. And I could go on with this, but the fact is that the media is not exaggerating the truth to damage the government’s image, is the government who is minimizing and hiding facts to cheat on Venezuelans.
Venezuela, with Hugo Chávez as president has become more dangerous than ever. Places that used to be nice and tranquil have increased its crime rate in up to 400% (Mérida).
Jails are overcrowded and so inhuman that when prisoners are released, even if they were jailed for petty theft, they come out as well trained murderers.
The Military Reserve, which Chávez commands directly in peace and war, is full of people with no background checks; all you have to be is loyal to the revolution, and if you are, then you are trained to kill and given a brand new weapon.
In Venezuela, yearly, there are more deaths than in Irak, a lot more. And this is only getting worse, even if the Chávez government wants to conceal truth, which, by the way, is impossible; a lot of us in this country are not blind.
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