One Last Frame.

Jorge Aguirre, a photographer with the newspapers El Mundo and Ultimas Noticias was murdered in Caracas, Venezuela on Wednesday while on his way to cover a demonstration calling for justice for 3 children who were kidnapped and murdered by alleged bogus Police officers.

This last image taken by Jorge before he died, shows his killer speeding off (to the right of frame).

A witness has confirmed the photographers car (which bore the markings of his newspaper) was stopped by the killer who identified himself as a police officer.

The true background of the killers is unclear. Both Bolivarian and opposition media in Venezuela have engaged in strident rhetoric against each other and newspaper staff on both sides have been harrassed and attacked for their alleged or actual alleigances.

There are forces outside the country who would dearly love to see the Chavez administration removed (preferably from within), while in Venezuela there are equally fervent Chavez supporters who want to see the continuation of the Bolivarian Revolution.

What is clear though, is that despite being an oil-rich nation with a president vocally committed to the redistribution of wealth, Venezuela's deepening social fractures continue, and still engender methods of social control and police corruption which are the depressing hallmark of many other South and Central American countries.