http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/hugo-chavezs-childhood-home-burned-by-antigovernment-protesters-in-venezuela-35744544.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article35744543.ece/151a9/AUTOCROP/h342/PANews%20BT_P-158c1e19-b1ef-4ad8-9f6f-bd6b3b35dd63_I1.jpg Protesters have set late president Hugo Chavez's childhood home in western Venezuela on fire, an opposition legislator said, as protests against the nation's socialist government grew increasingly hostile. While demonstrators are decrying current President Nicolas Maduro for the country’s triple-digit inflation, rising crime and shortages of food and medicine, they have also destroyed at least five statues commemorating Chavez, Maduro’s mentor and the founder of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian revolution.”

Demonstrators lit the house in the city of Barinas where Chavez spent his early years aflame Monday afternoon along with several government buildings, including the regional office of the National Electoral Council, said Pedro Luis Castillo, a legislator who represents the area. Social media users noted that the fire began shortly after the news that the military had killed 19-year-old Yorman Alí Bervecia Cabeza for protesting against socialism.
The birthplace of late President Hugo Chávez is burned by protesters as violence and looting spreads through Barinas, Venezuela following the death of a protester.