actress and former Miss Venezuela and husband murdered (Spanish)

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.eluniversal.com/sucesos/140107/asesinados-la-actriz-venezolana-y-ex-miss-monica-spear-y-su-esposo

2004 Miss Venezuela and actress murdered with her husband after stopping to check on an apparent disabled vehicle when they were fired upon. Their 5 year old daughter was injured and taken to the hospital. (Venezuela has the highest homicide rate in South America with an astounding 24,000+ murders last year)


Asesinados la actriz venezolana y ex Miss Mónica Spear y su esposo
El hecho ocurrió en la autopista Valencia-Puerto Cabello, a la altura de El Cambur.


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Artistas nacionales expresan pesar por asesinato de Mónica Spear Entrevista de julio de 2013 EL UNIVERSAL
martes 7 de enero de 2014 08:02 AM
Según confirmaron fuentes policiales, la actriz de TV Mónica Spear Mootz (29) y su esposo, el irlandés Henry Thomas Berry (49), fueron asesinados por un grupo de antisociales en la autopista Puerto Cabello-Valencia pasadas las 10:00 p.m. de este lunes.

Fueron tiroteados desde un automóvil cuando se encontraban en la vía porque el vehículo donde se desplazaban estaba accidentado. Ambos murieron en la vía y los trasladaron a la Morgue de Puerto Cabello

Spear ganó el Miss Venezuela en el año 2004. Interpretó su último papel como protagonista en la telenovela Pasión Prohibida de la Cadena Telemundo.

[COLGATE4]

1. But-but-but

they told me Maduro's security plan was working wonders.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. he is using the military for police functions as Honduras is doing as well

I am not sure how it is going in Honduras but not so well in Ven. By the way, I find nothing nefarious about using military for this purpose. It was or is still being done in Colombia among other places with some success. However, when you just make a show of it and don't actually send the military in places where there would actually be a benefit then its pretty useless. Maduro won't send them into Chavista barrios where much of the violence occurs.

[Bacchus4.0]

3. English news story

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/monica-spears-dead_n_4554456.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

Monica Spear Dead: Former Miss Venezuela Killed In Attempted Robbery



The 29-year-old star was travelling with her husband and daughter on the Puerto Cabello-Valencia highway in Venezuela when her car crashed.

Police reports confirmed that Spear and her husband Thomas Henry Berry, 49, were shot and killed by unknown assailants while the couple’s 5-year-old daughter was injured by a bullet in her leg.

The family was on vacation for the holidays and was traveling in a grey 2002 Corolla Toyota toward the city of Valencia at the time of the attack. Mónica was currently living in Miami and was expected to return to the United States this week.

In an interview with HuffPost Voces, the star confessed she left her native Venezuela due to the insecurity.

[Marksman_91]

4. The Venezuelans in social media are just exploding with rage right now

From Facebook to Twitter, everyone's talking about this atrocity. Wouldn't be surprised if this makes international news. This is an ex- Miss Universe candidate, after all, who was still young and had her life and her husband's taken away from them by a bunch of petty thugs. I tell ya, you may disagree with me on this, but I would feel an immense level of satisfaction if all the malandros in Venezuela were all lines up and executed by a firing squad. I'm sure the world would be a better place without those scumbags.

The worst thing is, it's impossible to NOT politicize this whole thing. After 15 years in power which included even greater concentration of competences into the central government, it's become their responsibility pretty much to guarantee the safety of the people, and the assassination of Monica Spear and her partner is only the latest example that shows just what a poor job they're doing.

[Bacchus4.0]

5. yes, its true her fame may be the spark needed to do something

although I personally don't see this government capable of intervening to reduce the explosive crime rate.

[Marksman_91]

6. Capriles actually called for Maduro to put aside differences and fight the violence together

But I honestly think he's being naive. The government has never shown any indication they want to cooperate with the opposition, even when an even worse crime happened about 8 years ago with the Faddoul brothers, why should they do it now? Just the fact that the government removed a lot of the resources and competences that belonged to certain mayors that got elected last month just because they're opposition shows the kind of people Maduro and his ilk are.

[Bacchus4.0]

7. 5 juveniles detained 15 to 16 years old, 3 of which were delivered to the police by the community

http://www.eluniversal.com/sucesos/140107/cinco-detenidos-en-el-caso-del-asesinato-de-monica-spear-y-su-esposo


You'll see some anti-crime activity pickup in the short term I am sure. However, I just don't think they government is willing to send police to the barrios where the crime mostly originates and occurs since they vote in favor of the government. They don't want to disrupt their benefits they recieve from positions of political power.

[Marksman_91]

8. Literal children born into this so called "revolution"

Guess they were some of the kids who didn't benefit from any of the government's misiones

[Bacchus4.0]

9. yep, it is all over the main stream English news and to clarify events

http://www.eluniversal.com/sucesos/140107/spear-y-su-esposo-fueron-atacados-cuando-eran-auxiliados-por-una-grua

THis story says they had an accident and were waiting 45 minutes when Spear managed to flag down a tow truck that was circulating the area. As they were being pulled out, the tow truck driver and assistant noticed the 5 subjects and began running towards the GN station about 1.5 km away. Spear and her husband went into their car and the assassins shot 6 times into the car killing the couple and wounding the child. The child apparently is out of danger.

[Marksman_91]

10. And now comes Maduro suggesting it looks like it was a planned assassination...

"Parece un sicariato" is what he says. "Sicariato" means "planned assassination", as "sicario" means hired assassin. What a fucking scumbag to suggest such a thing instead of accepting that the murders were perpetrated by a bunch of common thugs born and raised into this glorious "revolution".

[Bacchus4.0]

11. no, it sounds like a routine tactic used by common thugs.

that occurs frequently in the country and that the government refuses to address or barely acknowledge.