Caracas: A city deadlier than Baghdad

After dark in Venezuela’s capital city the streets are often bare. Night-time curfews, when put in place, are largely observed. Travelling by armoured car on a night out would be considered normal, armoured guards will be standing at the entrance to malls – the only place you could find a bar. All this seems a little extreme but when you consider the murder rate per 100,000 citizens is almost double that of the USA’s most dangerous cities, and in 2012 surpassed the rate in Baghdad, one of the most dangerous places on earth – then perhaps all this is not enough. More…