Can someone explain to me what sort of threat a butterfly collector was to anyone,never mind a government?
I read the article:
Rights groups had earlier said they feared that Mr Gómez may have been targeted because of his fight against illegal logging, one of the activities that criminal gangs in the area are involved in.
Mr Gómez is a tireless campaigner for the conservation of the monarch butterfly and the pine and fir forests where it hibernates.
So, logging. This is pretty common to read about among activists in Latin America.
Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, all of these countries have really a lot of violence and crime. I don't know if Venezuela would even be worth liberating with their crime problem not to be mean.. except maybe it wasn't so bad before the Chavez regime came to power.
