http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/holy-chavistas-venezuela-violent-deaths.html (nother hat tip to Instapundit)
'Venezuelan Politics blog reported that an average 33 Venezuelans were murdered each day last year, which comes to 1000 murders per month.
Iraq’s and Venezuela’s populations are roughly comparable: 27.5 million versus 27.7 million. In the last three months, there have been 1498 civilian fatalities in Iraq. During this same time, roughly 3000 Venezuelans have been murdered.'
Take a moment to digest those facts. Think about the language used by the big media organisations about Iraq (I'm thinking here especially about the naysayers of the Surge) and Venezuela. The fact that Venezuela has amongst the highest murder rates in the world virtually never gets remarked upon in the many paeans to Mr Chavez in the worlds media. Which is weird because if there were as many murders in Iraq as there are in Venezuela everybody would be shouting 'quagmire' 'vietnam' and 'civil war'. Funny how the world is, as opposed to how the world is discussed...
UPDATE
http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/venezuela/2006/08/13.html#a2996
Actually, the stats are WORSE than the ones I've quoted.
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