About ‘The violence paradox in Venezuela’
It happens everyday, as sure as the sun rises over the biggest favela in Latin-America placed in Caracas, the death is one of the few full time services that Venezuela has, all of us has felted sometime, either at the funeral of a friend, a family member or seen it in a pool of blood early in the morning, death is in the air. The media is not talking about crime, somehow the government made it to censorship the main newspapers in the country and since 2006 there isn’t official numbers of deaths related to violence. Some NGOs says the death poll last year was 24.000 Venezuelans, 252.000 since the revolution came to power 17 years ago. Venezuela has a military culture, despite every year the death poll has raised, the budget in military weapons for a hypothetical foreign threat, is seven times higher than the spend in civil safety, with; the war is inside our borders We don’t know who is the enemy, and because of that, also we don’t know who is our ally; we don’t know if we can trust in the police, or in the military, maybe our obsession with war is the problem. The true is that so many guns and so many deaths in a country without an armed conflict since 1849 is not normal, despite we want to convince our self that it is.
It happens everyday, as sure as the sun rises over the biggest favela in Latin-America placed in Caracas, the death is one of the few full time services that Venezuela has, all of us has felted sometime, either at the funeral of a friend, a family member or seen it in a pool of blood early in the morning, death is in the air. The media is not talking about crime, somehow the government made it to censorship the main newspapers in the country and since 2006 there isn’t official numbers of deaths related to violence. Some NGOs says the death poll last year was 24.000 Venezuelans, 252.000 since the revolution came to power 17 years ago. Venezuela has a military culture, despite every year the death poll has raised, the budget in military weapons for a hypothetical foreign threat, is seven times higher than the spend in civil safety, with; the war is inside our borders We don’t know who is the enemy, and because of that, also we don’t know who is our ally; we don’t know if we can trust in the police, or in the military, maybe our obsession with war is the problem. The true is that so many guns and so many deaths in a country without an armed conflict since 1849 is not normal, despite we want to convince our self that it is.