Women protesting against gender violence in Caracas in November 2020.Ariana Cubillos / AP
âAll women have something to tell,â 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.
Four years after the start of the #MeToo movement that brought down powerful Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein and led to an avalanche of revelations worldwide, the tide of feminism has broken on the shores of a country that carefully cultivates sexism under the supposed premise of championing the mother as the head of the household. Musicians, actors, theater directors, writers, politicians and journalists
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