Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why

By SIMON ROMERO
New York Times

CARACAS, Venezuela — Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out.

In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Venezuela that year, the number of murders climbed above 16,000. Slide Show

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