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Title: Venezuela 'silent' on hate crimes rise
Post by: Shana A on June 05, 2009, 07:04:49 AM
Post by: Shana A on June 05, 2009, 07:04:49 AM
Venezuela 'silent' on hate crimes rise
By Will Grant
BBC News, Caracas
Venezuela 'silent' on hate crimes rise (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8076379.stm#id8070000/8076300/8076366)
In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months.
But when you find out that all four were transsexuals or transgender, it changes the picture somewhat.
The bodies were reportedly found with money, mobile phones and handbags still on them, suggesting the attacks were not simple robberies.
"We have seen a definite increase in violence against transsexuals this year," says Estrella Cerezo, a founding member of the Venezuelan transgender rights group Transvenus.
Title: Re: Venezuela 'silent' on hate crimes rise
Post by: Michelle. on June 05, 2009, 02:46:18 PM
Post by: Michelle. on June 05, 2009, 02:46:18 PM
What else do you expect to happen in a fasicist dictatorship?
Title: Re: Venezuela 'silent' on hate crimes rise
Post by: tekla on June 05, 2009, 02:54:01 PM
Post by: tekla on June 05, 2009, 02:54:01 PM
He's not a fascist he's a crypto commie marxist. There is a difference out there in vocabulary land.
And violence is pretty much wide-spread in that nation, political violence, religious violence, drug violence, anti-women violence - its not like the transsexuals are being singled out or anything.
This article analyzes the changes in violence in Venezuela during the last forty years. It links the ups and downs of the oil revenues and the political crisis of the country to the changes in the homicide rates, which increased from 7 per 100 thousand inhabitants in 1970 to 12 in 1990, 19 in 1998 and 50 in 2003. The article characterizes Venezuela as a rentist society and shows its trajectory from rural violence to the beginning of urban violence, the guerilla movements of the 60s, the delinquent violence related to the abundance of oil revenues and the violence during the popular revolt and the sackings of 1989 in Caracas. After this, we analyze the coups d'état of 1992 and the influence the political violence exerted upon criminal violence. We describe the political and party changes in the country, their influence upon the stabilization of homicide rates since the mid-90s and their remarkable increase during the H. Chávez government. The article finishes with an analysis of the current situation, the official prohibition to publish statistics on homicides and with some thoughts about the perspective of greater violence in Venezuela.
Seems violence is pretty much the norm there.
I'd highly recommend the Narco-News Bulletin for coverage of South America, which is all but invisible in the American Corporate News.
And violence is pretty much wide-spread in that nation, political violence, religious violence, drug violence, anti-women violence - its not like the transsexuals are being singled out or anything.
This article analyzes the changes in violence in Venezuela during the last forty years. It links the ups and downs of the oil revenues and the political crisis of the country to the changes in the homicide rates, which increased from 7 per 100 thousand inhabitants in 1970 to 12 in 1990, 19 in 1998 and 50 in 2003. The article characterizes Venezuela as a rentist society and shows its trajectory from rural violence to the beginning of urban violence, the guerilla movements of the 60s, the delinquent violence related to the abundance of oil revenues and the violence during the popular revolt and the sackings of 1989 in Caracas. After this, we analyze the coups d'état of 1992 and the influence the political violence exerted upon criminal violence. We describe the political and party changes in the country, their influence upon the stabilization of homicide rates since the mid-90s and their remarkable increase during the H. Chávez government. The article finishes with an analysis of the current situation, the official prohibition to publish statistics on homicides and with some thoughts about the perspective of greater violence in Venezuela.
Seems violence is pretty much the norm there.
I'd highly recommend the Narco-News Bulletin for coverage of South America, which is all but invisible in the American Corporate News.