MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Group: Near 14,000 murders in Venezuela last year
By artappraiser on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 12:57pm |Christopher Toothaker, A.P., December 9, 2010
....Venezuela has one of Latin America's highest murder rates and the government has stopped releasing complete annual figures, making arriving at an exact figure difficult.
In its annual report, the Provea human rights group said a total of 13,985 people were slain last year, but thousands more in this country of 28 million inhabitants were likely killed. The group accused government officials of using statistical loopholes to "hide the true dimension of the phenomenon."....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120906955.html
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