Kidnapping, the face of the Chavista security policy failure

Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

The Chavez government has failed miserably in public security policies, to the point that the authorities no longer give official figures on the exact number of crimes being committed daily in Venezuela, hoping that, in this way, the population will not be aware of the government's inability on the subject. All crimes have flourished under the administration of Lt. Col. Chavez, from drug trafficking to counterfeiting of documents, but is kidnapping the illegal activity that has grown more in these 12 years of XXI Century Socialism.

According to figures from the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, about 17 000 kidnappings occur each year in Venezuela, indicating that 47 citizens of this country are victims of this crime every day.

In 1998, the Venezuelan electorate believed that a military would solve the escalation of crime that took place in Venezuela during the nineties. The reality shattered ​​that expectation. Before Chavez came to power, kidnapping seemed to occur only on the Venezuelan western border, but now that Chavez has twelve years applying his policies, Venezuela has surpassed Colombia in kidnapping cases per year.

While Lt. Col. speaks of socialism and expropriation, Venezuelans suffer the kidnapping of a family member or a loved one. Worst of all, the police is involved in eight out of ten of these crimes, as some experts say, and courts have become, under the Chavez government, ineffective institutions that do not punish those who commit such acts.

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