The doctors who tried to save his eyes said that 52 rubber buckshot pellets hit his face, 16 of them flying directly into his eyes. Both were there with their mother, Adriana Parada, to protest shortages of cooking gas in the region. Doctors at San Cristobal Central Hospital say they could only remove what was left of Chacon's eyes. At home, Rufo struggles with flies, who crowd around the open wounds where his eyes used to be. Rufo Chacon has to keep his face covered with a healing cream after being hit with dozens of crowd-control rubber pellets.

Source: CNN July 17, 2019 18:58 UTC