Shaven heads are all the rage in Venezuela at the moment. It is meant as a show of solidarity for Hugo Chávez, who is undergoing his third round of chemotherapy, and has lost all his hair.
But the trend has taken a new turn. After a group of state electricity workers cut off all their hair this week to draw attention to the “terminal cancer” afflicting their company, it may not be long before doctors try a similar stunt. Such is the state of Venezuela’s health sector that even Chávez preferred to jet off to Cuba to get his cancer treated.

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