AP/M.HERALD/ About two thousand people marched in Caracas to protest worsening and widespread violence. They beat drums and carried protest signs with images of skulls and crossbones and slogans such as "Enough" and "No more deaths." An emergency nurse said "There's an undeclared war here. I don't know what to call it." Trailing only El Salvador, Venezuela has Latin America's highest murder rate, even higher than Mexico. In just 11 months in 2009, there were more than 12,000 homicides. President Hugo Chavez prefers to scapegoat capitalism for the violence. "They want to attribute the violence to me," Chavez said. "Violence is one of the visible and terrible effects of social injustice, of capitalism, of the model the bourgeoisie imposed on us."
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