Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has launched a new federal police force that will fight crime based on preventative rather than repressive measures and embrace the socialist ideals of Chavez’s “Bolivarian Revolution.”
“We are tackling one of our population’s most sensitive problems: crime prevention,” Chavez told uniformed cadets belonging to the newly formed National Bolivarian Police Force during his weekly television and radio show Sunday. “We are going to fight crime.”
“The National Police will impose a culture of peace in the barrios to eliminate the violence of the capitalist, bourgeois model that we’ve inherited,” Justice Minister El Aissami told reporters.
The Justice Ministry reports that 12,257 homicides occurred during the first 11 months of 2009. Another report released earlier this month showed that police are involved in as much as 20% of all crimes in Venezuela.
The corruption levels have gotten so bad in Venezuela that a popular saying goes, “If you get robbed, don’t shout. The police might come.”
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Its amazing how little someone has to know before they feel like they can start vomiting words that supposedly mean something… Dictator? please…
For someone who lives abroad, NewsGuy knows suprisingly little about the world.
How have the actions of Hugo Chavez effected the investment environment within Latin America? Commodities expert Robert Petrucci explains…
http://www.alternativelatininvestor.com/commodities2.php
Hey maybe we should sell arms to the Iranians and use the money to over throw Chavez? Sounds like something that senile guy Ronald Reagan would do.
Oh wait Hugo Chavez is the duely elected president of his country.