Venezuela's Maduro pledges action on women's hair thieves

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cenydd
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Venezuela's Maduro pledges action on women's hair thieves Aug 15, 2013 12:19:18 GMT

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Post by cenydd on Aug 15, 2013 12:19:18 GMT

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called on the police to act against gangs that are stealing women's hair.

The thieves sell the hair - sometimes stolen at gunpoint - to salons where it is used for extensions and wigs.

Attacks appear to be on the rise, especially in the country's second largest city Maracaibo, local media report.

Mr Maduro used strong language against what he called "mafias that cut girls' hair".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23707452

Seems to me like there has to be something going wrong in a society where this has become an issue. To be stealing hair at gunpoint because it is sufficiently valuable to salons perhaps could be a demonstration about the gap between the rich and the poor in that society.

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