Cultural Enrichment: Venezuela Exporting Its Murderers To The U.S.

From Reuters: "Venezuela murder rate dips, partly due to migration - monitoring group." The article relates that "[t]he murder rate in Venezuela, one of the world's highest-crime countries, dipped in 2018 as some criminals apparently joined millions of law-abiding compatriots in leaving the crisis-stricken country, a local crime monitoring group said in a report on Thursday."

    The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) said in its annual report that Venezuela still had the world's highest murder rate, 81.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, but it noted that figure was down from 89 in 2017 and 92 the year before. Director Roberto Briceño attributed the drop in part to migration.

    "The majority of the Venezuelans who emigrate are honest people who have been forced to look for work elsewhere, but many criminals are among them," he told reporters, citing press reports on crimes in other South American countries.