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According to Amnesty International, the use of firearms to commit homicide and other violent crime remained widespread, even in prisons. Adds the indicated information source, which Venezuela tops the list of Latin American countries more violent with a rate of 48 killings per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010, according to the Minister of the Interior Tarek El Aissami expressed. Provided the figure the Minister in response to the data provided by the opposition and non-governmental organizations, which provide higher data. The rate is 48 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants and it is still a very high rate. That is the truth, admitted El Aissami, in response to questions from deputies in the Parliament.

The Minister did not give a national figure for homicides, but Venezuela has around 30 million people, according to the Institute National Statistics (INE), so the total number of murders in 2010 would exceed the 14,000. Although the Venezuelan Observatory of violence (OVV) coded in 17.600 killings throughout the country during 2010. This reality of insecurity becomes ever more dramatic, that one does not know to what can happen in your House, when they can be kidnapped, assaulted, even killed as it has happened, so far as commenting as it does that in Iraq, a country with a population close to the Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths by violence in 2009, according to the official count. In Venezuela, during that year, the number of murders rose over the 16,000. Even abhorrent war of drugs in Mexico has taken fewer lives.

Venezuelans have had such grim statistics for years. Those who have resources have hidden behind the walls of their houses and have hired foreign security experts to seek advice on when to avoid kidnappings and murders. Rich and poor alike have resigned themselves to living with a rate of murder which, according to the opposition, is not among the list of priorities of the Government.