A simple query of Wikipedia produced a plethora of basic information regarding criminal risks to foreign visitors to Venezuela. This is an example of The breakdown of the rule of law and loss of personal security, when government abrogates its responsibility to provide security, not rule over our choices, our lives. Wikipedia: Venezuela is especially dangerous toward foreign travelers and investors who are visiting. This is due to Venezuela's economic problems. The United States State Department and Government of Canada has warned foreign visitors that they may be subjected to robbery, kidnapping for a ransom or sale to terrorist organizations and murder, and that their own diplomatic travelers are required to travel in armored vehicles.[28][29] The United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has advised against all travel to Venezuela.[30] Most visitors have been murdered during robberies and criminals do not discriminate against their victims. Recently, former Miss Venezuela 2004 winner Monica Spear and her husband were murdered with her 5 year old daughter being shot while visiting, and an elderly German tourist was murdered only a few weeks later

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