Murder Rates Keep Rising in Venezuela (Part 1/3)

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Published 2012-10-03
Last year alone, Caracas had more violent deaths than Baghdad. Ryan Duffy traveled to Venezuela to investigate the country's crime epidemic.
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While President Hugo Chavez has raked in billions from Venezuela's oil boom, the crime rate in Caracas has skyrocketed. The crime epidemic has been so punishing that it could be the reason Hugo Chavez finally topples in the country's upcoming elections.

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bit.ly/Venezuelan-Body-Count-2
bit.ly/Venezuelan-Body-Count-3

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All Comments (21)
  • @drewmetra
    Lol at 5:07 vice. Cop says: "From up here you can see the kind of houses that they build". Subtitled as: "From up here you can see where the war takes place." Drama game on point.
  • @Dookiemunche
    Best way to not get shot? Tell the guy threatening you that you're in a gun free zone.
  • @evamaria534
    90% of crimes go unsolved. shit even Id send some fools to the shadow realm with those odds
  • @altheathepirate
    As a foreigner living in Venezuela for 11 years now, I'm glad to see people coming from outside to document the terrible situation that is going on in the country. Keep it up guys.
  • @BloodSMV
    5:07 the police officer didnt say "from up here you can see where the war takes place" he actually say from here you can see the type of houses the build up here
  • @Wreckageintow
    i miss my country, but i cant go there now, its worse since this video was shot.
  • @griggs227
    4 years later and it's "somehow" got worse Praise to the revolution
  • @VICE
    There's a track list in the credits at the end of part 3!
  • @MrFelixlegal
    false information. The nationalization of the oil industry was in 1975 and the President in charge was Carlos Andrés Pérez, is just Chávez' goverment who took all the profits to his own benefit
  • @deuteronomion
    The policeman is absolute savage 😂😂''Put your hands up........you too, what are you a fucking cripple?''😂😂
  • @GlossaME
    Does anybody know other channells similar to VICE? I am running out of documentaries. Regards.
  • @Rick696
    "You too. What are you, a fucking cripple." lmaoo
  • @Dcook85
    Geez, the cops have to have their guns out like all the time, even when just talking to someone. Nasty place.
  • @lacyevans7324
    Luckily, their new bus driver president isn't screwing everything up.... oh wait........ My mother-in-law came to Texas to visit a few months ago and guess what all of her money(that she was allowed to spend) was spent on? Toothpaste, deodorant, pads and other various items that are becoming impossible to get in Venezuela. It's a mess.
  • @DrWolfenstein313
    I've lived in Caracas all of my life and what this documentary portrays is accurate. Police, here, are what you may call "gang members in uniform" and very recently, the National Guard gunned down an innocent family because they confused their car with that of two delinquents. Now, I won't justify the cops attitude in my country. But look at them. Brazil has BOPE, what do we got? These guys go to Petare under-manned and badly equiped. And the government couldn't give two shits about it.
  • @rottenheart0
    watching this in 2021 after everything that has happened is unreal