Former world champion boxer
Antonio Cermeño, who was nicknamed El Coloso (The Colossus) during the peak of
his career, is reportedly dead at 44
http://www.latintimes.com/antonio-cermeno-dies-former-venezuelan-world-champion-boxer-kidnapped-murdered-44-155219
Former world champion boxer
Antonio Cermeño, who was nicknamed El Coloso (The Colossus) during the peak of
his career, is reportedly dead at 44 after being kidnapped and killed in Venezuela,
according to local police chief Eliseo Guzman.
Cermeño was found shot to
death on a road on the Caucagua-Higuerote highway in the state of Miranda on
Tuesday after he and his relatives were kidnapped near the La Urbina
neighborhood in east Caracas on Monday night. Relatives of Cermeño have
disclosed that they escaped from the kidnappers when they stopped to refuel
their car, but unfortunately, the WBA super bantamweight and featherweight
champion could not escape.
Cermeño's death is yet
another high-profile death that accentuates Venezuela's violence problem. Last
month, Miss Venezuela and
Telemundo actress Mónica Spear died after a robbery in Venezuela while
on vacation with her ex-husband Thomas Henry Berry and her 5-year-old daughter.
According to Globovision, Spear and her family were approached by the
assailants and were shot to death, in close range, after they resisted the
attack.
In the wake of the beauty
queen's murder, President Nicolás Maduro promised to tackle the issue and
pre-poned a security meeting that was scheduled for a later date. A 2010 UN
report cites that Venezuela
ranks as one of the top four murderous nation in the world with a murder rate
of 39 per 100,000 people, according to the Venezuelan government. That said, it
should be noted that a nongovernment agency, the Venezuelan Violence
Observatory, claims that the murder rate cited by the government are grossly
downplayed. The agency reports that there were 24,763 murders last year, which
would put the murder rate at 79 per 100,000 people.
Antonio Cermeño
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño (March 6,
1969 – February 25, 2014), nicknamed "El Coloso" (The Colossus), was
a Venezuelan boxer from Río Chico, Miranda, who twice won the world title.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Cermeño
photos
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Former WBA Boxing Champion
Antonio Cermeno Kidnapped and Murdered in Venezuela
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1973435-former-wba-boxing-champion-antonio-cermeno-kidnapped-and-murdered-in-venezuela