Local Perceptions of Venezuela’s Operación Liberación del Pueblo
Venezuela is one of the most violent countries in the world, with a homicide rate of at leaset 59...
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Etiqueta: Citizen Security
Events
Venezuela: Ten Questions for 2017
It would be great to be able to look forward to a better 2017. Unfortunately, in Venezuela as in...
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Venezuelan Opposition’s Police Reform Law Seeks Decentralization and Increased Firepower
In October the National Assembly (AN) approved in second discussion, a reform of the Ley Orgánica...
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Why are Police Officers Dying in Venezuela?
Figure produced by FUNDEPRO, charting the deaths of security forces in Venezuela from 2012-2015...
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Bad News for Venezuela’s Police Reformers: The OLP is Undeniably Popular
Questions added to Datanálisis Omnibus poll, fieldwork May 18-25, 2016, N = 1000, error +/- 3% ...
Read MoreVenezuela’s Violent Death Rate is Probably 20% Lower than Estimated
The single most quoted estimate for Venezuela’s 2015 violent death rate has been the Venezuelan Violence Observatory’s astronomical figure of 90 per 100,000. However, political scientist Dorothy Kronick, using data from...
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch and PROVEA Release Devastating Report on Venezuelan Citizen Security Initiative
On April 4th Human Rights Watch and PROVEA released a report on Venezuela’s most recent security initiative, Operation Liberation and Protection of the People (hereafter referred to as OLP). The report is entitled “Power without...
Read MoreIs Crime Getting More Organized in Venezuela?
[The following is a translated and edited version of a presentation I gave to an ad hoc, off-the-record discussion group last week in Caracas. The first 650 words or so are rather academic. If you want more Venezuela-specific...
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The Citizen Security Proposals of Venezuela’s New National Assembly
A picture of Hugo Chávez saluting Simón Bolívar that hangs on a wall in the National Security...
Read MoreProjecting, Estimating and Whispering about Venezuela’s Homicide Rate
Venezuela’s Attorney General is getting some deserved applause for actually providing the AN with homicide statistics for 2015, something that has not happened in years. She said there had been 17,788 murders in 2015 putting the...
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Venezuela Program
Geoff Ramsey
Director for Venezuela @GRamsey_LatAm
David Smilde
WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University
@dsmilde