Venezuela Essay -- Violence, Murder, Robbery, Kidnapping

Venezuela is a dangerous country, and its capital, Caracas is an extremely dangerous city. Venezuela is a deadlier place past Iraq, with about four times the number of deaths from violence in Venezuela thence in Iraq. In 2008 the homicide rate for Venezuela was 48 for every 100,000 large number. In the fall in States the rate was 5.6 per 100,000 (Llana, 2008). A 2010 report puts the murder rate at 75 per 100,000 (Shooting gallery, 2010). Caracas has become the deadliest city in the world, with approximately 200 murders per 100,000 people (Romero, 2010 US Department of State, 2010). That is in contrast to New Orleans, the city in the United States with the highest murder rate at 52 per 100,000 people, and considered the deadliest city in the US (FBI, 2010). In an example of the dangers of just being in Caracas, on August 13th, 2010, Chinese baseball player Cheuk Woon Yee Sinne was struck by a stray bullet as she took the field for a match in Caracas (Shooting Gallery, 2010). The US Department of State, in their travel information on Venezuela, lists murder, robbery, and kidnappings as problems for travelers. Thieves will rob their victims using guns or knives and they are not afraid to use force. Thieves will even attack their victims in move markets with little worry. Kidnappings are also a threat in Caracas. sensation type of kidnapping is the express kidnapping that can occur at the airport. Victims are taken, usually at gunpoint, to withdraw as much currency as possible from ATMs. there is also the virtual kidnapping where abduct surveys are used to get contact and personal information on minors. The kidnapper then calls the parents for ransoms without the child actually being taken. A triad type of kidnapping is the i... ...country (James, 2010b).In order to help with the health bursting charge of Caracas poor, the Chvez government has brought doctors from Cuba to Venezuela. The Cuban doctors live with the residents of the barrio s of Caracas, setting up offices in unused rooms. The Cuban doctors are not only available to hump with whatever emergencies that should arise (heart attacks, child births, gunshot wounds), but one of their ancient goals is preventive medicine (sexual health, the importance of boiling water, proper meal preparation). There is opposition to the Cuban doctors, with the Venezuelan Medical Federation claiming that the Cubans do not have proper accreditation. The Federation has even won a drive against the government, with a ruling that the Cuban doctors had to be replaced with Venezuelans. The government ignored the ruling, and dissolve the court (Ceaser, 2004).