The staggering number of violence in Venezuela: more than 300,000 people murdered in Chavez's 20-year revolution

At the end of this week, the twentieth anniversary of the Chavez revolution, the balance left by violence is illustrated by its bloody writing. Over the past two decades, more than 300,000 Venezuelans have been killed, which gives an average of at least 41 homicides per day.

The account of the morgue is carried by the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), a non-governmental organization that investigates criminal clues with several universities because of the obscurantism with which the regime deals with these data.

"Twenty years ago we had 4,550 homicides a year (…) and in 2018 we had 23,000 violent deaths", reported the director of the NGO, Roberto Briceño León, after being reminded that there were more violent years than the past, as 2016when the number of victims was 28,000

This increase means that the homicide rate increased from 19 per 100,000 population in 1998 to 81.4 last year, which places Venezuela at the forefront of global violence, exceeding even some countries in armed conflict.

"In 20 years, we have had a growing trend of homicides, especially those clbadified as resistance to authority.", an article that includes those who" without trial and without conviction, die at the hands of the police ".

Briceño León explains that this practice is the most worrisome, since it resulted in 5,500 murders in 2017 and 7,500 in 2018, that is to say "every day of the year in the year. the country, 20 people died at the hands of police and military police. "

Crime rates have increased in the Caribbean, especially between 2004 and 2012, when the country recorded its highest oil revenues and at a time when the government claimed it had distributed this wealth to eliminate inequalities between the poor and the poor. rich

However, during Nicolás Maduro's six-year period, more than 100,000 Venezuelans swelled the list of victims of violence and increased cases of "resistance to authority" with the implementation of police and military actions under the name of the people 's liberation operation.

By badyzing the characteristics of victims and perpetrators, the OVV reports reflect an undeniable similarity: almost all are men, young and poor.

According to these data, over 60% of those killed in the last 20 years (nearly 200,000) were between 14 and 29 years old when they lost their lives, while 90% were men and more than 80% lived in poverty.

On the side of the authors, the characteristics are very similar, with the alarming data on the age of incorporation into delinquency, which decreased to 12 years, even though there are many cases of antisocial at 10 and 11 years old.

Although the most common crime in Venezuela is theft, violence is mainly measured by killings. Indeed, more and more victims of thieves choose not to report minor scourges.

According to the OVV, this happens due to the "almost absolute" impunity prevailing in the country where, in 92% of homicides, "there is not even a person arrested".

Another consequence of this lack of reaction on the part of the institutions is the recourse to "private justice", which has increased in recent years cases of lynching and orderly killing, which occur in a situation of impunity. and loss of state. by right ".

In addition, violence and the national economic crisis are the indisputable catalysts of mbad migration of Venezuelans Over the past 20 years, it has been estimated that some five million people have left the country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world.

"Do not feel safe, victim of a theft, kidnapping (…), first hit the upper middle clbad, then the workers (…), in the past three years (encouraged) the mbad release of popular sectors"Briceño León says about this exodus, which has particularly warned the migration of some criminals.

The anti-social "can not find a market or a possibility in the country (…), there is nobody to steal" and so decide to emigrate to "other destinations to continue their misdeeds", while tens of thousands of Venezuelans are leaving their country. country to "flee hunger".

The OVV considers that the twenty security plans applied by the so-called Bolivarian revolution since 1999 are not effective and "do not aim at improving security", but keep Chavismo in power.

(With EFE information)