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In February, beauty queen Genesis Carmona was shot to death during a protest in Caracas. The BBC reported she was killed by pro-government militias. Some government officials claim she was shot by protesters. Her lips, wrapped around a breathing tube, became a symbol of the brutality of the Maduro regime. People had been killed before, by both sides. But this was a beautiful girl, obviously innocent.

Beauties and battles go together like war and lies. Causes are personified as women — Columbia, Marianne — bare-breasted babes leading men to the slaughter. The word “bombshell” is derived from the actresses painted on the sides of bombers, a painted prayer looked to by soldiers for encouragement, reassurance.

The Iranian government killed between 27 and 150 people in the protests following the 2009 election (because Iran did not allow independent observers, the number is in dispute). Many were murdered by the basij, or volunteer militiamen. A 26-year-old woman, Neda Agha-Solton, was one of them.

A fellow protester filmed her dying. It was posted by Arash Hejazi, a doctor who tried to save her. Time called it the “most widely witnessed death in human history.”

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