In Venezuela, life is undervalued, and death is overpriced

CARACAS, Venezuela — “My brother was a decent man,” Julio Andrade said sadly, as he waited to receive his oldest sibling’s corpse, outside the Caracas morgue. The body of his 55-year-old brother, Rubén Darío, had been found two days earlier on a highway outside the city, after he had been kidnapped and killed. But the family’s […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/06/14/in-venezuela-life-is-undervalued-and-death-is-overpriced/