Miss Universe Venezuela 2005 Monica Spear Killed

Miss Universe Venezuela 2005 Monica Spear Shot Dead in a highway near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela on Tuesday, January 7. Monica Spear was a fourth runner-up in Miss Universe 2005 held in Bangkok.

Monica Spear and her husband Thomas Henry Berry, where shot to death following a hold up after the vehicle they were riding in broke down.

Murder rate explosion
An explosion in the murder rate since Hugo Chávez launched his Bolivarian revolution in 1998 has become an increasingly problematic issue for the Venezuelan government.
Last year it deployed troops to tackle the problem and last month the interior minister claimed the homicide rate had dropped from 50 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012 to 39 last year.
But human rights groups in Venezuela say the real number is far higher and that the government has censored murder statistics to prevent the full scale of the problem becoming public.
The Venezuela Violence Observatory estimates 24,763 people were unlawfully killed last year, which would push the homicide rate to 79 per 100,000 inhabitants, making Venezuela one of the world’s most violent societies. In 1998 the homicide rate was just 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. (irish times)

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