by Bob Walsh
The national government of Venezuela has issued a warning to its citizens to avoid travel to, among other places, the American cities of Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Oakland, Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Buffalo and Stockton.
As of this writing Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is second on the international list of most dangerous places with a murder rate in 2017 of 111 per 100,000 population. I somehow doubt the crash in the economy and quasi-civil war has made it more safe.
On April 9 of this year the U. S. State Department issued a Level 4 Travel Advisory (that is the ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND level of alert) for travel anywhere in Venezuela.
EDITOR'S NOTE: I was in Venezuela twice in the early nineties and really liked it, except for the smog in Caracas. But that was before they had all this socialist crap. The only danger I faced was from the Yąnomamö Indians deep in the Amazon
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