‘Crime in Venezuela’ Archives
Fear and Paranoia in Caracas
I thought this was a very thoughtful post about how our fear and paranoia can close us off to meeting new people and getting the most out of our travels. It comes from Jake and Caitlin's Letters to Gringolandia blog. Caitlin wrote this post when she had only been in Venezuela for a few weeks. I wonder if her interactions with Venezuelans [...]
Life in Caracas: lavish malls and BMW dealerships, amid poverty and crime
I enjoy reading the San Francisco Chronicle, but I recently discovered an Alternative Daily called "BeyondChron" that bills itself as "The voice of the rest." Eli Rosenberg, a writer for BeyondChron, wrote a piece back in 2006 that described in precise terms the constant diverging realities of Caracas, Venezuela. He wrote about the haphazardly [...]
Kidnapping in Venezuela is out of control
The guardian.co.uk published a recent article by Roy Carrol titled, "Fear grips Venezuela as even the poor are seized by kidnap gangs." The article says that "pensioners, students and children are grabbed in streets and shopping malls." This kidnapping plague seems to be spreading all through Latin America. In Mexico of course it has been out [...]
