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Oscar B. Castillo, 2ndo premio, 2015

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  • Caracas - Venezuela. An artist performs an act dressed with a Venezuelan flag to call for tolerance and dialogue between the opposing positions in Venezuela. In Altamira Square, main bastion of opposition, many performances and peaceful manifestations have been taking place today for second day in a row after the end of violent clashes between opposers to the government and militar forces.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. A passer by looks at a big format poster of Hugo Chavez's eyes with the slogan "We are all Chavez" in Caracas downtown. More than one year after his death Chavez figure still omnipresent in Venezuelan daily life but struggles and fracture have been constantly increasing as well as social indicators of violence, poverty or inflation.
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  • A family with a young kid walk together on a sunday afternoon in Caracas downtown. Family rupture is one of the main issues in actual Venezuelan society and is at the base of many youth problems.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. A young boy walks over a bridge that connects Caracas south east with downtown. One of our main problems is our inability to put ourself some limits while enjoying our freedom and respect other people's rights.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. Relatives and friends of the daily victims wait outside of the main morgue at forensic police department in Caracas. Some 50 to 100 murders are commited weekly in Metropolitan Caracas what gives the city some 100 murders for each 100.000 inhabitants per year.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. In the middle of a protest, manifestants roll a concrete pipe with the numbers of 25.000 murders in Venezuela for 2013. Even if this number is calculed on the highest line, no offical data is known since 2005 when government stopped giving official numbers about violence.
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  • San Cristobal, Tachira State - Venezuela. Officers of forensic police unit collect clues and details about a shooting in which supposed armed militias supporters of government targeted an opposition camp and fatally shot student and opposition supporter Daniel Tinoco, 24 years old.
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  • San Cristobal, Tachira State - Venezuela. Fellow students supporters and friends of Daniel Tinoco show their mortars after Daniel Tinoco,  24 yrs old, was fatally shot the night before by masked men. They explained that for them was not anymore a pacific demostration.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. View of Caracas west end area. Lack of development programs and centralization of all important social and economic activities have over populated a city that hardly can answer to the needs of its inhabitants. It is in the barrios where the majority of violent situations take place and from where come the 86% of the victims and victimizers.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. A gang member displays a gun and some money and posses for a cellphone picture for a friend. Even for those trying to break their circle of violence, their everyday context still being the main challenge because of rival gangs, lack of opportunities and and criminal past records.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. Friends and relatives of Omar Martinez, 18 years old, mourn him at South General Cemetery in Caracas. Omar was killed by police forces after he got detained by the police together with a suspect of phones robbery. Both were killed in what police said was a fire exchange 3 hours after their detention.
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  • Caracas - Venezuela. A man walks in front of a mural with a dove of peace mural made on the days of violent protests in Venezuela, by a social collective group supporters of the government.
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