Why Venezuelan Ladies Now Need to Worry About Their Hair
Ladies in Venezuelan city of Maracaibo have to be careful when wearing their hair down. According to local reporters, a gang known as “piranhas” is now stealing women’s hair – and they prefer to do it straight.
The
robbers usually hold women at gunpoint in random places, even in malls,
and tell them to tie their hair into a ponytail so that they can then
cut it off and sell it to beauty salons as hair extensions – Venezuelan
digital newspaper Informe 21 reports.
Jhonatan
Morales, a hair stylist in Venezuela, in an interview to the TV
reporters said that the use of hair extensions has gone up by 30%, but
that his salon “doesn’t buy from street vendors because we don’t know
where that hair comes from.”
Eveling
de Rosales, the mayor of Maracaibo city, addressed the issue saying
“men and women were being
placed to guard and avoid this happening
again.”
Venezuela’s
soaring crime rates have been an issue in recent years. Caracas, the
country’s capital, is the third most violent city in the world,
according to a study by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and
Criminal Justice.
The
murder rate in the South American country has soared since Hugo Chavez
took office in 1999. In 2012 it was at 73 per 100,000 inhabitants,
almost 15 times the U.S. rate, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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