Venezuela: Photos of Armed Children Spark Controversy
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| Image via Eduardo Ponte @acaballoregalao on yfrog |
February 4, 2012 /Photography News/
Seated beneath a mural of Jesus Christ holding a gun, children
aged 3 to 7, covering their faces with political bandanas display assault rifles as adults proudly stand beside them. These pictures were posted on Facebook and Twitter by a radical political group based in a working class
neighbourhood of the Venezuelan capital.
The group in question, the La Piedrita Collective, controls the 23 de
Enero parish in Caracas, a neighbourhood that has been a leftwing
stronghold for decades and is where Venezuela President Hugo Chávez - whom the
collective claims to support - casts his vote during elections.
Hugo Chávez, who has a reputation for courting
controversy, drew the line this week and condemned the widely circulated
photos, calling the members of La Piedrita irresponsible.
After the scandal erupted, some of the women who appear in the
photographs with the armed children released a video filmed in a
classroom with the young pupils holding up books on Venezuelan history
and the country’s constitution, in which they state, 'These are the
weapons we give to our children.'
In a country where homicide rates have drawn comparison to war zones,
the photos have sparked heated debate over Venezuela's fractured
politics and the role of the self-proclaimed "revolutionary" government
in encouraging an armed civilian defense force, which officials have
said total as many as 150,000 strong. The photos were also a start-off
point for a march organized by the same collective, La Piedrita, through
which they demanded respect for the children in the photographs.
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