Tag Archives: Suicides

Suicide rates doubled in Venezuela during the harshest years of its humanitarian crisis. Males between the ages of 30 and 50, a productive age when it is very hard to be left without employment and income, are a group particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted violence. CREDIT: Ihpi by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Tuesday, …

By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, testified before Congress about the hardships Border Patrol agents are experiencing. Last year was especially hard, he said, with 17 agents committing suicide. “To put that in perspective,” he said, the New York Police Department’s …