Venezuela claims to be at forefront for weapons destruction in Latin America

If you add the weapons that are intended to destroy this 2012, a total of 54,737, with those destroyed in the country since 2003, “overcome the 342,575 weapons that are out of circulation in recent years.”

Since 2003, when Venezuela began to exert a continuing policy for the destruction of firearms, destruction has been achieved to date of 287,838, a figure that this year will exceed the 300,000 barrier, product strategies disarmament conducts the Venezuelan state.

In that sense, Pablo Fernandez, technical secretary of the Presidential Commission for the Control of Firearms, Ammunition and Disarmament, said that if you add the weapons and planned to destroy this stan 2012, a total of 54,737, with country destroyed since 2003, “overcome the 342,575 weapons that are out of circulation in recent years.” Read Article