Chavez' Asymmetrical War...

From here:

It is remarkable that this war generates so little publicity, almost no noise and is so far from being the international scandal that it should be. According to official figures 68,926 Venezuelan were killed by common criminals or in violent confrontation with the police since Chávez took over in 1998. Compare that to the 23,700 killed in the seven years prior to Chávez being elected the first time and nobody can even begin to blame the current levels of homicides to the previous Governments or the 40 terrible years of the IVth. Republic. As with so many things in Venezuela today, like corruption, poverty or inefficiency, things are simply so much worse with Chavez, even if they were already pretty bad before him.

But compare the same numbers with real wars elsewhere and it just so happens that more Venezuelans have died from homicides since Chávez took over, than people on both sides have died in the Iraqi war (63 thousand ), or the war in Afghanistan (33 thousand) or the war in Chechnya (50 thousand) or proportionately even the armed war in Colombia (73 thousand in the last ten years)

But of course, like the murderous Castro, Chavez remains one of the darlings of the left.

Go figger.

(h/t Heavy-Handed)

(Filed under world affairs, limousine liberals, moonbat adventures)