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Apr 2, 2024 · Available data shows crime in Venezuela has dropped, but not by 67%. It’s difficult to track crime statistics in Venezuela because its government doesn’t publish reliable data, said Mike ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Available data shows crime in Venezuela has dropped, but not by 67%. It’s difficult to track crime statistics in Venezuela because its government doesn’t publish reliable data, said Mike ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Venezuela: homicide rate 2014-2023. Published by Statista Research Department , Apr 10, 2024. In 2022, there were nearly 40.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in the country, down from a...
Dec 27, 2018 · The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) said in its annual report that Venezuela still had the world's highest murder rate, 81.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, but it noted that figure was down...
- The Issue
- Background
- Corruption and Money Laundering
- The Bolivarian Joint Criminal Enterprise
- Illegal Mining
- The Presence of Foreign Countries
- Cuba
- Russia
- China
- The Presence of Nonstate Actors
Nicolás Maduro, following former president Hugo Chavez’s legacy, fostered the creation of a criminalized state in Venezuela that uses transnational organized crime as an instrument of state power.1 According to a research report published after five years of fieldwork, the Venezuelan state is part of a consortium of criminalized actors working in c...
Venezuela’s humanitarian, economic, and political crisis has forced millions of citizens to flee, created a lawless environment where crime rates are astronomically high, and has given rise to the presence of various state and nonstate actors within the country. Venezuela is increasingly vulnerable to drug and human trafficking. There are few, if a...
Corruption in Venezuela is systemic, infiltrating many, if not all, public and private institutions in the country. Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index recently gave Venezuela a score of 17 out of 100, with 0 being very corrupt and 100 being very clean. Venezuela ranked 168 out of 180 countries, showcasing its extremely high l...
With the consolidation of Hugo Chávez’s as a regional leader in the 2000s came the creation of the Bolivarian Joint Criminal Enterprise, a “trust-based multi-nation social and criminal network” that spans all across the region and is aided by governments, including from Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Suriname, El Salvador, in addition to the Re...
The country’s conditions are similar to those of a failed state, with the Maduro regime having less and less control over the country’s territory. Criminal groups, including gangs, Colombian guerrilla groups, and colectivos are creating new threats across southern Venezuela as they compete for control of the region’s valuable mineral resources, inc...
Another security problem facing Venezuela is the presence of foreign governments in the country. These actors serve to delegitimize the will of the Venezuelan people by helping prop up the Maduro regime, whether it be through supplying the military with arms or engaging economically with Venezuela. Of particular concern is the presence of Cuba, Rus...
Cuban influence has helped prop up the Maduro regime and facilitated Maduro’s crackdown on dissent throughout the country. Although this observation is correct, the level of Cuban presence and influence is disputed, particularly within the U.S. government. National security adviser John Bolton claims that Cuba has sent between 20,000 to 25,000 secu...
Russia is another country whose presence in Venezuela has worried the international community. In an eerie reiteration of the Cold War, it appears that Russia is attempting to expand its influence in Latin America to serve as a counterbalance to the strong presence the United States has enjoyed in the region throughout the past few decades— and arg...
China’s continued support of Maduro is widely recognized as one of the main reasons that Maduro has been able to remain in power. More than $615 million in weapons were sold by China to Venezuela over the past 10 years, supplying the military and the colectivos with arms to help deter criticism from the general population. The China Development Ban...
Other countries are not the only groups to have an influential presence in Venezuela; over the past decade, many nonstate actors have either grown out of the conflict in the country or have brought their operations to Venezuela. How these actors respond to the “Day After” events in Venezuela will have a direct and significant impact on the future o...
Feb 19, 2020 · Crime soared. The homicide rate, rising across Venezuela, climbed particularly fast in Miranda. ... The figure was the second-highest in Venezuela and about 30 times the rate at the time in the ...
Jul 10, 2021 · In 2020, Venezuela registered 12,000 violent deaths, according to the Venezuelan Violence Observatory. This is a rate of 45.6 per 100,000 inhabitants – seven times higher than the global...
