I found this article in the New York times kind of stunning. It's stayed with me, partly because I saw a photography exhibition on the violence Caracas at the Caixa Forum earlier this summer.
In short:
In 2009, there were 4,644 civilian deaths due to violence in Iraq. It is a WAR ZONE, so this is tragic but not contrary to expectation.
In 2009, there were more than 16,000 murders in Venezuela.
Holy shit. What the fuck.
The other reason this stuck with me is that one my bosses from last summer was half Venezuelan and half Japanese. He didn't speak a lot of Spanish because he left Venezuela when he was 10. I have to wonder if the crime situation was the same at that time (about 20 years ago), and if it played into his family's move.
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