Hugo Chavez’s Spirit is Alive in 2020 America
Censorship, a politicized criminal law, disarming legitimate police, and rounding up guns are not milestones on the way to a utopia, not even in America.
By Adam Mill • August 3, 2020
Venezuela has the world’s highest murder rate because the police there don’t stop murder unless it helps politics. So long as homocide doesn’t threaten the power or wealth of the governing party, murders are largely unsolved and are often committed by the very police who should be preventing them.
As Business Insider reports, in Venezuela murders happen with “widespread impunity†because of “the complete [dysfunction] of the judicial system that allows for a significant degree of impunity for some, usually high-profile, offenders, and, as a result, disregard for the law, because it’s selectively applied.â€
Homicide is the leading cause of death among Venezuelan youth. To add to the misery, in 2012 Venezuela banned the private ownership of firearms.
These are the bitter fruits of a system in which criminal law is simply another tool in the arsenal of power. A politicized law enforcement and judiciary combined with a relentless gun confiscation program leave citizens at the mercy of criminal gangs and extra-judicial police violence. Venezuealans sacrificed these rights in exchange for a hoped-for socialist utopia. In the end, they lost their rights and didn’t get the bargain for which they pined.
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