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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela murder rate soars [View all]NickB79
(19,236 posts)13. Not unless there's a civil war or something
The US has roughly 11X the population of Venezuela; we'd need to see over 200,000 murders per year in the US to match their rate. Right now there are approximately 16,000 murders in the US every year.
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Yeah, Saint Hugo's socialist paradise is like so many other South American countries.
Archae
Dec 2012
#11
what biased website? and feel free to investigate the circumstances behind any of these 20,000
Bacchus4.0
Dec 2012
#35
People generally convince themselves that crime's always skyrocketing everywhere
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#21
Seriously. Canada has 35 million people and we had 554 homicides in 2010. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#16