{"id":56674,"date":"2019-12-29T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56674"},"modified":"2019-12-29T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T02:12:53","slug":"venezuela-reduces-crime-by-36-3-percent-in-eight-categories-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56674","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Reduces Crime By 36.3 Percent In Eight Categories In 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CARACAS, Dec 29 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) &#8211; The crime rate in Venezuela fell 36.3 percent this year, in eight main criminal categories, Interior Minister, Nestor Reverol, said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The reduction in crimes that occurred this year, compared to 2018, reached 34.4 percent in the case of theft; 35.4 percent in robbery; 51.9 percent and 50.8 percent in vehicular theft and robbery, respectively.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reverol said, homicides decreased for the fourth year, with the rate falling to 20 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, a reduction of 36.3 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidnappings &#8220;fell by 34.2 percent, and efficiency in solving cases reached 97 percent, minimising fatalities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to the fight against drug trafficking, the Venezuelan minister said, security forces seized in 2019, a total of 44,274 kilograms of various drugs, and detained 6,254 people allegedly involved in the drug trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the rate of traffic accidents in the country had also fallen, decreasing 49.7 percent compared to last year.&#8211; NNN-PRENSA LATINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Dec 29 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) &#8211; The crime rate in Venezuela fell 36.3 percent this year, in eight main criminal categories, Interior Minister, Nestor Reverol, said Saturday. &#8220;The reduction in crimes that occurred this year, compared to 2018, reached 34.4 percent in the case of theft; 35.4 percent in robbery; 51.9 percent and 50.8 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}