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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nVenezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has suggested that the brutal slaying of former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her ex-husband Thomas Henry might have been planned attack. \"That assassination seems more like a contract killing,\" he said. \"We have identified those involved in this assassination, and we are going to look for them.\"The shooting, which their 5-year-old daughter witnessed, led to public outrage and protests regarding the surge in violent crimes in Venezuela. Maduro called a meeting with all of the country's governors to discuss public safety matters. \"If there's any sense to this pain, it has to be so that we all wake up,\" he said.Spears' parents told NBC News that they had tried to persuade their daughter to move to the United States with them after she had been robbed six times in Venezuela. Her ex-husband moved to the United States from Venezuela about 15 years ago after being shot but returned in 2006.Crime rates in Venezuela have been a concern for the past few years. The nation's capital, Caracas, reached 4,000 murders in 2012, according to Forbes. That's more than 30 times the rate in New York. A Gallup poll reported that Venezuelans are more likely to feel unsafe than citizens in 134 other countries.Follow Ariel Nagi on Twitter. Photo Credit: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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