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| Shock reality for US of Venezuela's epic drop in MURDER as 'thugs who think crime is part of regular... |
| 2024-06-30 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … life' come to America. Violent deaths in Venezuela have plummeted to a 22-year low as criminals increasingly join the millions fleeing the broke socialist nation - many of them entering the US to pursue their own twisted version of the American dream. Once deemed the world's most dangerous city, Caracas has seen homicides fall by a staggering 25 percent when compared to 2023, with the Venezuelan Violence Observatory registering 26.8 violent deaths per 100,000 people, compared to a rate of 35.3 for every 100,000 habitants in 2022. But now, as Venezuelans increasingly flood over the US-Mexico border, reports of newly-arrived migrants committing horrific crimes have left Americans shocked - including that of two men arrested in the brutal abduction, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Texas just last week. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the oil-rich socialist regime is emptying its jails and sending violent felons to the US as he campaigns for a second term. But security experts say the real reason is more likely that criminals and gangsters are now seeking to escape the bankrupt nation and go where the money is. According to InsightCrime, the dire economic situation in the country, combined with the mass population exodus, has reduced opportunities for those looking to extort, kidnap and rob back home. 'Crime is falling in Venezuela because of the destruction of the country’s economy …because of the loss of opportunities for crime,' OVV director Roberto Briceño-León told InSight Crime. While the government does not publish official data on crime, Venezuelan security official Remigio Ceballos Ichaso has claimed overall crime has dropped by 32 percent - without citing what kind of crime that figure included. Jose Antonio Colina, founder of Veppex, an organization that advocates for Venezuelans who were persecuted by the nation's regime, told DailyMail.com many of the recent arrivals accused of horrific crimes have never known democracy or the rule of law and are acting in the US as they were allowed to do back home. 'Many of them are minors who are born and raised in a country where there is no justice or respect for the law,' said the former Venezuela military officer, who has been exiled in Florida since 2003, when he was accused of conspiring against then-president Hugo Chavez. Unlike its neighbors in Latin America, Venezuelans have not traditionally been a migrant culture - in 1990, there were just 42,000 Venezuelans in the US, compared to 282,000 Colombians. Venezuelans began leaving their country in significant numbers in 2000, just a year after Hugo Chavez' election, as the nation's wealthiest feared nationalizations and socialist policies to come, as reported by Caracas Chronicles. The US is currently seeing a third wave of new arrivals from Venezuela, which started in 2017, and has seen the country's poorest and most desperate travel from their homes to the US-Mexico border on foot, crossing into central America through the perilous Darien Gap. Along with the millions of innocent migrants, criminals including professional gangsters have also managed to make their way into the US, and have been making headlines in recent months. The gangsters have used the migration wave to hide among legitimate asylum seekers - over 334,000 Venezuelans crossed the US-Mexico border in fiscal year 2023 - second only to Mexicans. 'They go into local economies where there are Venezuelans and take over the criminal underground using excessive force,' former Border Patrol Agent Ammon Blair told the New York Post. 'They’ll start shooting prostitutes controlled by rival gangs and perform the executions live on social media in order to establish their presence.' The political and economic crisis has forced more than 7.7million people to leave the nation since 2014- even more than Ukrainians and Syrians. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 That's what is suggested. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-30 18:49 |
| #4 So their murder rate is down because many of their thugs have migrated to the US? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2024-06-30 13:49 |
| #3 P2k, I first read that as politicians and got excited. Not that there is significant difference. |
| Posted by: alanc 2024-06-30 12:54 |
| #2 Classify them as an invading army and declare open season. More truthful, and certainly more positive results. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2024-06-30 11:31 |
| #1 'They’ll start shooting prostitutes controlled by rival gangs and perform the executions live on social media in order to establish their presence.' They should be treated as outlaws and given the same 'due process'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-30 10:38 |