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Lucylastic -> RE: Oklahoma beheading (9/26/2014 7:08:40 PM)
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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/sadism-and-fear-venezuela-crime-takes-a-gory-turn
Violent crime in Venezuela has taken a gory turn as a spate of dismembered bodies has turned up around the country, their detached heads and limbs often scattered far away.
Forensics analysts say six victims’ body parts have been found in the past two months, a disconcerting trend in a country that already has 70 murders a day, according to researchers—one of the world’s highest homicide rates.
Police have also registered a recent rash of other macabre crimes: women stabbed to death by their partners; a man shot in the face while walking with his baby; and a son who slit his parents’ throats.
Edgardo Buscaglia, a social policy expert at Columbia University in New York, said the brutal violence is the product of a government that has been “paralysed in its capacity to confront the criminal networks operating in the country.”
He said the weakness of the Venezuelan state—mired in economic woes ranging from rampant inflation to chronic shortages of basic goods—has enabled foreign criminal networks to infiltrate the country, including from Mexico and Colombia, two nations plagued by ultra-violent drug crime.
Even Venezuelan Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez has acknowledged the gravity of the problem, condemning the “Colombianisation” of organised crime.
Rodriguez said police had dismantled 255 criminal networks and captured 13,000 criminals from May 2013 to August 2014, but that 92 “highly dangerous” gangs remained.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/sadism-and-fear-venezuela-crime-takes-a-gory-turn#sthash.WATl5yE3.dpuf
Venezuela is 92% of the population is Roman Catholic
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