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3 Min Read CARACAS (Reuters) - Women’s activists in Venezuela have largely halted unofficial abortion services after the arrest of a university professor who helped a 13-year-old girl to end a pregnancy, according to 10 women’s rights advocates interviewed by Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Locals hold a flag at a gathering in Caracas, Venezuela September 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo Police in October raided the home of Vannesa Rosales in the northwestern state of Merida and arrested her. Her lawyer says she will likely be charged with inducing an abortion and conspiring to commit a crime for her role in helping the girl terminate a pregnancy after being raped. ....
By Angus Berwick and Sarah Kinosian SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough. His loudest local critic had accused him of bungling the response to the coronavirus outbreak and other big problems. In August, he wrote a state prosecutor and requested an exhaustive investigation of his nemesis, Giovanni Urbaneja, a former lawmaker who had become a gadfly to the mayor and other Socialist officeholders. Urbaneja, Belisario wrote in a letter reviewed by Reuters, was conducting a ferocious smear campaign on Facebook and elsewhere. Urbaneja not only defamed him and President Nicolas Maduro, the mayor wrote. He violated Venezuela s Law Against Hate. The law, passed in 2017 but rarely used before this year, criminalizes actions that incite hatred against a person or group. ....