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Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro invests almost $50m in an initiative to disarm civilians, in an effort to cut down on the country's high murder rate. The BBC writes:
Speaking on the International Day of Peace, Mr Maduro said his government would invest $47m (£29m) and create 60 new disarmament centres.
According to United Nations figures, Venezuela has the second highest peacetime murder rate in the world after Honduras.
Most of the murders in Venezuela are committed using firearms. "We are building peace from within, and for that, you need disarmament," the president said at an event in the capital, Caracas.
U.N. figures suggest there were 53.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012, compared to 90.4 in Honduras.
The figure was up from 47.8 the previous year. Mr Maduro also approved $39m in funding for a plan under which soldiers have been deployed to patrol the streets of the most dangerous neighbourhoods.
