Venezuela: it's scary to live here

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Venezuela was swept by crime when Hugo Chavez came to power. While 1998 killed thousands of people in the country in 4,5, then in 2010, we can speak of more than 20 thousands of people killed, and in 91% of cases, the killers are not caught. Abductions of people occur a little less, according to statistics about 17 thousands of people per year disappear. Under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela became the first country in the world of anarchy.

Even in Iraq, which constantly participates in wars and exceeds Venezuela only by 4 million inhabitants (31 million in Iraq and 27 million in Venezuela), 2009 4 people were killed for 644 a year, when in Chavez's country 16 047 people were killed According to the NGO Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia. Last year, that number jumped to 20 thousands. Caracas, the capital of the state, is rightly considered the most dangerous city in the world, the annual population decline due to the killings is 130-200 people per 100 thousand inhabitants. It is impossible to say more precisely, since the Venezuelan authorities themselves cannot name the exact population of the capital, estimates vary from 3 to 5 million people, if we consider the suburbs, then we can speak about 8 millions. The second place in the world crime situation ranking is occupied by South African Cape Town (98 kills per 100 thousand people). Bogota, the capital of Colombia, is considered a paradise for all bandits, but there this figure is only 22,7, and in Sao Paulo in Brazil - 14 people.

In the spirit of Venezuela is the twin of Russia. For more than 10 years the country has been under the control of one person - Hugo Chávez, it is easy to draw a parallel with Putin. He sings on television in the same way, flies around on helicopters everywhere and considers America to be the main culprit of all troubles. On 80%, Venezuela’s exports consist of oil, which is also 30% of GDP. Like Russia, the state imports the most necessary goods. Science and industry are not developed at all.

And yet, in some respects, Venezuela can be considered a more developed country than Russia. The average life expectancy of their men is 71 year, when in Russia this figure is kept at the level of 59-61 of the year, taking into account young people from Central Asia. The multi-party system and competitive elections in the country are not only words, three parties are represented in parliament, and one of them (40% of the seats) takes an extremely opposition position with respect to Hugo Chávez’s policy. Women make up about 60% of the total number of municipal deputies. On 93%, the country's population lives in cities, the urbanization rate is one of the highest in the world. In Russia, it is 73% according to official data and 50% according to calculations of individual experts.

Oil revenues in the country are distributed in such a way that the social system is more humane. In addition, the cost of a liter of gasoline is only 3 Russian rubles.

At the same time, Venezuela has to pay dearly for its social experiments. If the minimum wage in a country is about 170 dollars, then the poverty and unemployment benefit is 300. It is not surprising that the majority of the population from the lower classes does not want to work, since the state pays for doing nothing. According to official statistics, the number of unemployed in the country is 6-7%, in fact, 70-80% people in the slum population refuse to work, while 30-40% of the country's population are below the poverty line. As in the countries of the Second World, they prefer to rob the rest of the population, and the most violent and cunning gather in gangs and deal with much more complex crimes.

A passerby can kill for a handful of small things in a wallet, elderly women in their own apartments, owners of small enterprises who refuse to pay tribute. Listed up to 60% of the entire business. Exceptions are large enterprises with serious security or belonging to revolutionary officials.

Up to 70, fishermen from the northeast shore of Lake Maracaibo are subject to a tribute, including 2,5 thousands of boats from the Miranda municipality. The bandits allow you to put decals on the sides of the boats with a huge Nike sun as a sign that the tribute has been paid. These highly visible markings from afar save fishing vessels from being killed and robbed.

In the same municipality (areas of Punta Vihia and Sabaneta de Palma) for two days 30 motors with a total value of 16 thousands of local bolivars each were removed from fishing boats, which is approximately 2500 dollars.

In the areas in the south of the lake (Valmor Rodriguez and Baralt) there are gangs who prefer to wear military uniforms. They require a down payment from the fishermen on the 150 Bolivar and the subsequent 100 monthly (23 and 15 dollars respectively). But this money also guarantees only the inviolability of the vessel, and not the fisher himself, who can be kidnapped for ransom. This is another favorite entertainment of the local poor.

During the 12 months alone during the 2009-10 period, according to the National Institute of Statistics, 16 917 people were abducted in Venezuela. With a family stolen, a ransom of 6-12 of his monthly income is demanded, that is, 1-2 is thousands of dollars for a poor person.

As already noted, 91% kills are not revealed. And the main reason can be called a radical change in the work of the police under the current government. Hugo Chavez is absolutely sure that the police must serve as preventive and educational, and not repressive. Before he came to power, as in all Latin American countries, there were special units in the Venezuelan police, local “death squads”. They suddenly broke into the neighborhoods of the poor and carried out an ambulance for any offense, they could kill for the only cartridge they found. The Venezuelan president dismissed these “squadrons”.

The only thing that is still somehow capable of holding gangs from slums is civilian militias of rich neighborhoods. As a rule, they consist of wealthy white youth. Local leftists call the members of these compounds fascists. In neighboring Colombia, the same "fascists" are fighting with the red partisans, along with government punishers.

In this situation, the president can only blame America and world imperialism for the sweeping criminality that has swept the country. Neighboring Colombia is added, Hugo Chavez calls it Latin America’s Israel. The bourgeois past of the country is also considered the “culprit” of the evils that have occurred. Venezuela has a law that Russia applies to Chechen fighters - a gang can lay down weapon, “Repent” of their sins and promise to take the right path, stopping to commit murder and kidnapping. In 2003, this law pardoned Sementero, one of the largest gangs in the capital. Around 150, criminals surrendered to the mercy of the authorities and were released.

One of the reasons why criminals remain at large is overcrowded prisons, which are designed only for 14 thousand people. However, 38 of thousands of criminals are already in them. Every year, 400-450 prisoners die in Venezuelan prisons.

The exodus of the white minority, which is about 20% of the country's population and for the most part belongs to the middle class or the top of society, creates additional difficulties for the events. The number of blacks comes to 10% of all residents, the rest are mestizos and purebred Indians.

The Venezuelan Data Analysis Institute (IVAD) recently conducted a study, the results of which showed that 71,9% of the country's population considers crime as the main problem of the country. Spain's consul in Venezuela, Anibal Jimenez, shared with the Venezuelan press that more and more people are consulting on the necessary documents to enter Spain. Over the last decade, 130-140 of thousands of indigenous Venezuelans and the descendants of Spaniards went there, another 60 of thousands of people just returned to their homeland.

Gregorio Castro, a sociologist, says that the main factors that cause the population to flee to Spain are high crime and degradation, social and political, which is painfully given to the middle class.

Only in Caracas, thousands of people visit 1,5 every day at the Spanish consulate and 500-600 people in other cities of Venezuela visit it. 300-600 people come to the consulates of Italy and Portugal per day.

Thus, it can be said that the policy of Hugo Chávez created the first state of anarchy in the world in which the authorities simply ignore many processes, and the “working people” themselves deal with the issues of the lower classes. Such a situation is similar to the USSR in the 1920 of the year. It should be expected that the power of Chávez will be replaced by a reaction, up to a semi-fascist dictatorship. This development is very characteristic of Latin America.
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    1. 0
      13 August 2011 10: 58
      Venezuelan police had special units, local "death squads." They suddenly broke into the neighborhoods of the poor and carried out quick reprisals for any offense, they could kill for the only cartridge found. The Venezuelan president dismissed these “squadrons”.

      I think they are now working in Colombia, in the border areas.
    2. +4
      13 August 2011 12: 27
      curious little article and where and by whom is it written ?? and whose ears stick out of it.? I don’t say that it’s good with us and that Venezuela has an earthly paradise --- but according to this article it turns out, the country of victorious banditry and they took an example from us.
      1. Marat
        +5
        14 August 2011 00: 58
        Their ears and stick out, Datur - do not even doubt it. anti-Russian and anti-Soviet article -
        1. ab
          ab
          0
          28 January 2012 02: 44
          Quote: Marat
          Their ears and stick out, Datur - do not even doubt it. anti-Russian and anti-Soviet article

          and then what does Russia have to do with it?
      2. dmitri077
        -1
        28 January 2012 01: 38
        take official statistics and draw conclusions! Did you bring Cuba to paradise? Venezuela is next in line
    3. Stefano
      0
      13 August 2011 14: 58
      And I about Venezuela heard the opposite who to believe?
    4. mitrich
      +1
      13 August 2011 21: 34
      Venezuela is a typical Latin American country with all its bells and whistles. Favelas, crime, drugs - the entire spectrum of South American pleasures.
      Hugo Chavez, in my preconceived opinion, is not Castro or Che Guevara. A populist like our Zhirinovsky - slogans, appeals, promises ... His "electorate" is precisely the inhabitants of poor favelas, whom he powders the brains with "social justice". True, it does little for this. I remember that he set up a network of such social shops for the poor, where you could buy the necessary products cheaply. The implementation of the idea, however, disappointed ...
      The rich and middle layers of the Venezuelan population (and by the standards of this country we are with you, since we have a computer) can not stand it, but the proportion of headless and illiterate in red shirts is so great that the victory in the Chavezu elections is almost guaranteed.
      I am not considering here his relationship with Russia (here you can apply President Wilson's principle of Somoz: "He, of course, is a son of a bitch - but this is OUR son of a bitch!"
      So who wants Hugo Chavez in Russia - vote for Zhirinovsky ... True, there is a suspicion that instead of red shirts they may be forced to wear bales wink !
      1. dmitri077
        0
        28 January 2012 01: 40
        Sure, bald little fat! there is no light in the huts, but they bought weapons lol
    5. Marat
      +8
      14 August 2011 00: 56
      The main thing for me is that he is ours! That the son of a bitch is not sure. Without the nationalization of the oil sector and a more equitable distribution of income, their people were doomed to remain in the poor favelas - and even though they took the course to Cuba - education medicine baby food, etc.
      But of course, the main thing is that it supports Cuba and all countries of the Bolivarian movement - it creates a headache for the United States - another hotbed where Pindos spend nerves and strength, are distracted from us. At a decisive moment, Chavez and his Bolivarian neighbors (ortega, etc.) can be used to mutual benefit against the United States.
      1. -2
        14 August 2011 09: 44
        Chavez is undoubtedly far away, but do not hang all the cats on him. Back in 1996, I met an emigrant from Venezuela (by the way, I married a guy from St. Petersburg- International wink ), so they family fled to Spain. According to her, they are tired of living behind barbed wire with private security. Otherwise there was no way.
        In my opinion, after all whites "return to their historic homeland" Venezuela will turn into Haiti and no hydrocarbons will save them.

        PS
        Chavez has a long time left for him.
      2. cVM
        cVM
        -7
        14 August 2011 22: 22
        do you think one hundred extrasuel and bolivia will be able to send something to the usa? usa is a global country with its army, economy, political power, technology
        1. zczczc
          +1
          15 August 2011 00: 00
          And a debt of $ 16,5 trillion. When the BRIC countries give up the buck, and this will happen sooner or later, your Negro from the avatar will go to work on the farm.
          1. cVM
            cVM
            -4
            15 August 2011 02: 02
            while the world uses the dollar, the usa has no debt you don’t understand, the usa will be pulled in a crisis after itself and the world and your brix will come to a quick end
            1. zczczc
              +3
              15 August 2011 03: 38
              A typical creditor song is "if something happens to me, you won't get your money back." With the money donated by the United States in the form of petrodollars, you just need to say goodbye and forget. The sooner this is done, the less time will be lost in an illusory stay about "not everything is lost" and "maybe the dollar will get stronger."

              Now everything will be archetypal: the United States will reduce the military budget as much as possible, with time (10 years) there will come a moment when China, India and Russia will have complete total superiority at sea and then all the punitive and oil capture missions of the United States will become impossible in principle. And fsio. Moreover, in 20 years there will be few whites and those will be pensioners without pensions, and since Latinos and Negroes are not particularly strong in science, Indians, Chinese and Russians will not really want to change the corner dear to their weakened economy, then the scientific and technical potential also slowly begin to save, and this is the finish.

              A sweet US life is possible only if the following conditions are met:
              - Unconditional military domination in the oceans;
              - the unconditional dominance of the dollar as a world reserve currency;
              - The attractiveness of the American lifestyle for visitors;
              - Prevention of armed conflict on and near its territory.

              Everything that the United States can count on in 10-20 years is the fourth point. But it will be given to them with some difficulty, for now nuclear weapons are becoming available not just to banana countries, but even just to military groups within countries with a weak managerial vertical (Pakistan, for example), which have a big tooth in the USA, therefore a dirty nuclear bomb more relevant than ever on the lawn of the white house.

              What about us? Oddly enough, we need two things - the Soviet defense industry and at least Soviet honesty in foreign policy. Honesty is needed in order for us to be respected by the normal, and in defense, so that all kinds of goats are afraid. So far we have neither one nor the other.
              1. cVM
                cVM
                -5
                15 August 2011 12: 44
                The United States Navy takes 1st place with more than 1000 naval units, super modern warriors, etc., at the bottom of aircraft carriers more than 8 and want to do up to 16, and it’s not a problem to reduce defense, it’s not enough to arrange trainings if you take all countries with a budget, it does not make 35% of the defense costs of the United States, the United States earn 7-8 trillion annually and spend on all infrastructure, the development of countries that are already developed, retired, etc.a in the brix people become hungry and go hungry, and the fact that Pakistan is controlled not by radicals but normal politicians, you need to study the state of Pakistan then write, terrorists are not only in Pakistan but also in our country
        2. Evil Tatar
          0
          28 January 2012 13: 13
          One hundred mi-dumas, we don’t make it, and one hundred s-s-we do it ...
          Pokasem, pokashim-whim-t-ty ...
      3. ab
        ab
        0
        28 January 2012 02: 49
        Quote: Marat
        For me, the main thing is that he is ours!

        Our USSR had half of these, all Arabs, half of Latin America. So far, debts are written off
        .
        Quote: Marat
        But of course, the main thing is that it supports Cuba and all countries of the Bolivarian movement - it creates a headache for the United States - another hotbed where Pindos spend nerves and strength, are distracted from us

        calm down, as if in a joke.
        --- this is the elusive john
        - so elusive that no one can catch him?
        --- no, just nobody fucks need him.
    6. Ivan35
      +7
      14 August 2011 14: 01
      Comrades - do not listen to the slander of the podindosnos on Hugo! He is a hero - opposing a huge pindostana. He has nationalized oil and is trying to achieve a fair distribution of income in order to save people from poverty. If he does not - he will become the banner of the struggle for freedom - like Che and Fidel! Bolivarians will continue his work!
      1. dmitri077
        -1
        28 January 2012 01: 41
        what a hero? let the people feed their own!
      2. ab
        ab
        0
        28 January 2012 02: 53
        Quote: Ivan35
        Che and Fidel! Bolivarians will continue his work

        By the way, the Bolivars themselves, the peasants, filled the European Championships. He stuck them with his revolution. And Chavez has the same end.
      3. Evil Tatar
        +1
        28 January 2012 13: 27
        Quote: Ivan35
        Comrades - do not listen to the slander of the podpindosnikov on Hugo! He is a hero - opposing a huge pindostana.


        One hundred pounds Hero ...
        And who, tell me, will take revenge on the Anglo-Saxons for millions of exterminated Indian brothers?
        Who should be responsible for the life and death of children, grandchildren of Chingachgook, Osceola, the Vigilant Falcon?
        And as for banditry and crime, there is still someone to remember the 90s ...
        And the horror on the scales of all of Russia was no less.
        Of course, in Russia there is a different international attitude to each other ... But still ...
        If people are tired of gangsters, then they gang up and drive out gangs, as it was in Japan with Yakuza, or dries, as the old days in Russia (grandmother, born in 1903, said) - the men will gather, they will catch the villains and live in the pit .. A few days the earth moves ...
        Or as in the north of the Khabarovsk Territory in the 90s, in a large village on the BAM - the peasants will get bored, gather .......... and flee all the gangs of bandits, athletes, etc. from the village. For two or three weeks silence, then they slowly turn back, but the "suitcases" are always on the watch ...
        Like this...
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    8. +5
      14 August 2011 23: 25
      Typical custom article, let the liberals frolic.
      Power is in the truth!
    9. ab
      ab
      0
      28 January 2012 12: 51
      Quote: figvam
      Typical custom article, let the liberals frolic.
      Power is in the truth!

      It’s even hard to look into the eyes. In one, you are right --- the power is in the truth. If you are a killer, I think that data is very difficult to distort. Unfortunately I do not speak Spanish, what does the Vinisuela press write about this?
    10. ZritelXXl
      +1
      24 March 2012 15: 08
      Chavez is without a doubt a worthy politician of our time.

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