The student-led unrest began in San Cristobal in Venezuela's “wild west” near the Colombia border two months ago and has quickly spiraled into a nationwide movement during which at least 39 people have been killed.
Since the death of Hugo Chavez the rancor over the “Cubanisation” of Venezuela has lead to near total devastation for the country. Mass demonstrations led by now imprisoned Leopoldo Lopez, a charismatic young Harvard-educated economist, have turned into deadly assaults against the government. Even a top ranking general is in hiding because he opposed the new President Nicolas Maduro bringing in top Cuban military advisers who's modus operandi is repression of dissent, crushing of protest, and the use of armed paramilitary groups to unleash an ever greater deadly military action against the opposition.
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Shop-window dummies with enlarged breasts, tiny waists and unnaturally sculpted rears are catering for the national obsession with implants and plastic surgery.
Venezuela's obsession with beauty and physical perfection has been influenced more by its repeated success in 1970s and 1980s beauty pageants, when three Miss Venezuelas – the first sporting a nose job suggested by the competition's organiser – were crowned Miss Universe. "When there is a defect, I correct it," Miss Venezuela chairman
Osmel Sousa told the paper. "If it can be easily fixed with surgery, then why not do it? I say inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves."
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