Apparently, there is a middle-class flight from Venezuela counting in the 10s of thousands or some such.
Interestingly enough, the CIA Factbook (hardly a friend of Chavez, I'm pretty sure) says:
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 101
Net migration is defined as
Net migration rate
This entry includes the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population). An excess of persons entering the country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population); an excess of persons leaving the country as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change. The net migration rate does not distinguish between economic migrants, refugees, and other types of migrants nor does it distinguish between lawful migrants and undocumented migrants.
If they're leaving in droves, they're also heading in, in droves.
Then there's the whole crime has increase issued. Again, let's go back to that CIA Factbook. I would think, now, I could be wrong, but I would think if crime were that rampant, that their death rate would be much higher than
Death rate:
5.14 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 183
I checked the definition of death rate to make sure it included those "extreme crime" rates and the CIA Factbook and the Oxford Dictionary of Statistics confirm:
Oxford Dictionary of Statistics:
mortality rate
Variant: death rate
The number of deaths occurring in a population during a given period of time, usually a year, as a proportion of the number in the population. Usually the mortality rate includes deaths from all causes and is expressed as deaths per 1 000. A disease-specific (or age-specific or sex-specific) mortality rate includes only deaths associated with one disease (or age or sex) and is reported as deaths per 1 000 people of the specified type. The mortality rate may be standardized when comparing mortality rates over time, or between countries, to take account of differences in the population. See also age-specific rate; sex-specific rate.
Read more:
http://www.answers.com/topic/mortality-rat... For comparison, the US death rate is: 8.38 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
I did find an interesting snippet in an article written by one of those "Chavista" types; you know, the ones who have the audacity to question the veracity of western corporate controlled media
even when it applies to Chavez rather than
just when it applies to Democrats.
From the article:
However, as Marquez claims, the media largely underreported the violence. She notes that, “The violence in Caracas is much more serious than anything portrayed in the media.” Before 1999, the media, she continues, underplayed “the dimension of the problem to avoid disturbing the public.”
When I spoke with Julio Cesar Velasco, the former civil boss of a poor barrio in central Caracas, he reaffirmed Marquez’ remarks: “Before President Chavez the media reported one of every hundred killings.” However, now he argues, “the media reports every killing a hundred times.”
So, has crime increased? Or has reporting of crime in right-wing controlled media increased?
Well, as one r/w media owner said to CNN:
International coverage was sparked most recently by the publication in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional of a graphic and highly disturbing photo of corpses piled haphazardly in a morgue in the epicenter of Venezuela’s violence – the capital city of Caracas. While the photo was printed in the lead-up to this year’s election campaign, it was quickly discovered that it was taken no later than December of last year. Yet El Nacional’s owner, Miguel Henrique Otero, waited for a more political opportune moment. As he pointed out himself on CNN, they decided to hold off printing the photo until this month because “Venezuela is in campaign-mode.” (emphasis added)
<snip>
Similar cries of censorship were printed in US media after the Venezuelan government tried to pass legislation that barred newspapers from printing graphic photos like the one published by El Nacional.
{the picture in question which the r/w media, in the US and Venezuela, screamed about being censored in Venezuela}..."was too graphic to be shown in US media"
CIA FactbookUpside Down WorldI would really like to be able to see what's going on in Venezuela without the obfuscation, misinformation and hollering of our r/w and their r/w.
