#MeToo wave breaks in Venezuela as sexual abuse and harassment cases come to light

“All women have something to tell,” wrote the Venezuelan poet Yolanda Pantin on Twitter last week. It was the culmination of a painful landslide of online denunciation by victims of rape, abuse and sexual harassment over the past few days that served to lift the lid on a crisis that no longer fits under the rug where other pressing problems are piling up in a country suffocating under the authoritarianism of President Nicolás Maduro, chief among them poverty and insecurity. By Florantonia Singer. Full Text -> ElPais

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