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At Least 20 Dead In Venezuela Prison Riot

CNN (USA), BBC NEWS (UK), EL NACIONAL (Venezuela)

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CARACAS - Venezuela prison minister Iris Varela has confirmed that at least 20 people were killed after violence broke out in a Venezuelan jail, reports El Nacional.

The violence occurred between rival gangs, with one of the dead a relative of an inmate, in Yare prison, south of Caracas, BBC News reports. The situation is now under control according to Iris Varela.

"There was a confrontation between two heavily armed groups inside the prison," Varela said.

Officials blame inmates for trying to take over the prison, says CNN.

The prison is located in the northern state of Miranda, where at least 25 people died in a riot in another prison last year.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, protests and violent clashes between rival gangs in Venezuela's overcrowded prisons led to more than 500 deaths last year, reports BBC News.

Last month, similar waves of violence erupted in the Cepri penitentiary and lasted over 20 days.

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Why Every New Parent Should Travel Alone — Without Their Children

Argentine journalist Ignacio Pereyra travels to Italy alone to do some paperwork as his family stays behind. While he walks alone around Rome, he experiences mixed feelings: freedom, homesickness and nostalgia, and wonders what leads people to desire larger families.

Photo of a man sitting donw with his luggage at Athens' airport

Alone at Athens' international airport

Ignacio Pereyra

I realize it in the morning before leaving: I feel a certain level of excitement about traveling. It feels like enthusiasm, although it is confusing. I will go from Athens to Naples to see if I can finish the process for my Italian citizenship, which I started five years ago.

I started the process shortly after we left Buenos Aires, when my partner Irene and I had been married for two years and the idea of having children was on the vague but near horizon.

Now there are four of us and we have been living in Greece for more than two years. We arrived here in the middle of the pandemic, which left a mark on our lives, as in the lives of most of the people I know.

But now it is Sunday morning. I tell Lorenzo, my four-year-old son, that I am leaving for a few days: “No, no, Dad. You can’t go. Otherwise I’ll throw you into the sea.”

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