Every Picture Tells A Story

News reports from Venezuela show one of the Parliament's opposition MP's - Julio Borges - with some nasty facial injuries inflicted during a heated debate.

Now I can understand tempers getting frayed and people getting excited, but the old saying about 'sticks and stones' exists for a good reason - and there simply is no excuse for this kind of violence in a democratic debating chamber.

I imagine that what happened must be recorded on CCTV somewhere - unless the Venezuelan Parliament operates in a very different way to just about every other legislature in the world.

So as well as there being no possible excuse for this physical violence - there should be nothing to prevent the authorities for holding the people responsible to account for their behaviour.

Apparently a fist fight broke out during a debate over Venezuela's disputed presidential election boiled over - and several opposition MPs were left bloodied and bruised after the clashes.

The opposition MPs were protesting after the Government-controlled Parliament passed a measure denying opposition members the right to speak in the chamber - until they recognised Nicolas Maduro as President.

Government MPs blamed their rivals for starting the violence - calling them 'fascists' - but the pictures of this victim seems to tell a rather different story.