This disgusts me

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and began starving him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition watched, emotionless, the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.

The prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of Central America decided that the 'installation' WAS actually art, so Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the Biennial of 2008.

Here are 2 links to a couple of petitions to stop him from repeating what he did last year:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html

"I knew the dog died on the following day from lack of food. During the inauguration, I knew that the dog was persecuted in the evening between the houses of aluminum and cardboard in a district of Managua. 5 children who helped to capture the dog received 10 bonds of córdobas for their assistance. The name of the dog was Natividad, and I let him die of hunger in the sight of everyone, as if the death of a poor dog was a shameless media show in which nobody does anything but to applaud or to watch disturbed. In the place that the dog was exposed remain a metal cable and a cord. The dog was extremely ill and did not want to eat, so in natural surroundings it would have died anyway; thus they are all poor stray dogs: sooner or later they die or are killed." ~Guillermo Vargas Habacuc

I'm not sure if it's true, but one website I read said the title of this "piece" ("Eres lo que lees") was spelled out in dog food. Regardless, it's just sick.

I realize the dog lived on the streets and had little access to food or water in the first place, but it is seriously completely inhumane of him to purposely strip him of any kind of nutrition and sit back and watch a helpless animal die chained up for the sake of a "political" piece of art while everyone stands around enjoying their complimentary punch.