CARACAS, Wednesday October 01, 2008 | Update
Politics
Caracas tops the list of the five cities in the world with
the highest rates of "brutal and murderous violence." The
city of 3.2 million people has a rate of 130 homicides for
every 100,000 residents, according to official statistics
published in the review Foreign Policy (FP).
According to FP, the other four capital cities are Cape Town,
South Africa, with a rate of 62 murders for every 100,000
of its residents; New Orleans, United States, with a rate
of 67 to 95 murders for every 100,000; Moscow, with a rate
of 9.6 for every 100,000 residents and Port Moresby, Papua
New Guinea, with a rate of 54 for every 100,000 inhabitants.
"Caracas has become in recent years far more dangerous than
any other South American city, surpassing even the once notorious
criminal rates of Bogota, Colombia," said the article published
in the magazine, Efe reported.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."