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The fire began in the jail attached to the police station in Valencia, a city located about 160 km (100 mi) west of Venezuela's capital city, Caracas. [6] The jail was built to contain only 60 prisoners, but when the fire broke out, it housed about 200.
Crime in Venezuela is widespread, with violent crimes such as murder and kidnapping increasing for several years. In 2014, the United Nations attributed crime to the poor political and economic environment in the country—which, at the time, had the second highest murder rate in the world.
2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire: 2018, 28 March Valencia, Carabobo 69 a fire broke out during a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, The fire killed at least 69 people and injured scores of others. [49] October 2018 Tumeremo massacre: 2018, 14–16 October Tumeremo, Bolívar state 7+ Amazonas ambush
On 2 December 2020, the Organization of American States General Secretariat released a 145-page report expanding on the 2018 report by the Panel of Independent Experts that concluded there was a reasonable basis to believe crimes against humanity were being committed in Venezuela, noting that since 2018 the crimes against humanity in Venezuela ...
If Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, secures another term — which, given his opponent’s 25- to 30-point lead in the polls, would require massive fraud — even more ...
Venezuela had "by various measures, the world's highest violent-crime rate" in 2017, and almost none of crimes that were reported were prosecuted. [181] InSight Crime says the crisis has "all too often been obscured by the government's reluctance to release damning crime statistics". [230]
The investigative group InSight Crime reported that the National Liberation Army (ELN) operated in at least 12 of Venezuela's 23 states by 2018. [31] The Venezuelan NGO Fundación Redes (Fundaredes) in 2018 documented more than 250 reports of Venezuelans who were victims of recruitment by Colombian irregular groups. [ 32 ]
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