The late Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela encouraged slum-dwellers in the capital city of Caracas to occupy the Tower of David, a 45-storey skyscraper, turning it into presumably the world’s ...

Food Security Venezuela Antonia Herrera 12/07/2024 Father Jose Maria Gimeno has a mission - he wants to convert mothers in Venezuela's slums. His message: Stop eating meat, cook with soy!

For 48 hours he has ducked flying bullets. He is not on a battlefield but rather in a suburb of Caracas, the capital of violence-ridden Venezuela which in his own words is “a country at war.”” The ...

He couldn’t do it, because his house didn’t appear on it — he lives in La Vega, a slum district of Caracas, Venezuela’s largest city. He added a relative’s address, but all the job ...

Venezuela is among the top 20 drug trafficking nations in the world and among the 15 most corrupt, said Marmol, with an estimated 18,000 criminal organizations at work inside its borders.

Caracas slum residents have long been left to their own devices. In 2013, police agreed to so-called "zones of peace" from which they undertook to steer clear if the gangsters promised in return ...

Back to homepage / Live news Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums Caracas (AFP) – Issued on: 26/07/2021 - 06:44 Modified: 26/07/2021 - 06:42 6 min Advertising ...

Shooting from all sides," a resident told AFP. Venezuela registered almost 12,000 violent deaths last year; a rate of 45.6 per 100,000 of the 27-million populationAFP / Yuri CORTEZ ...

Venezuela is among the top 20 drug trafficking nations in the world and among the 15 most corrupt, said Marmol, with an estimated 18,000 criminal organizations at work inside its borders.

Many people in the slums told me they had initially supported Hugo Chávez, who founded this regime, but almost all had turned against Maduro. “When Chávez died, I cried,” one woman in the ...

Prosecutors say that since 2017, 695 members of Venezuela's security forces have been prosecuted for murder, torture, unlawful arrests and home invasions. Of those, 109 have been convicted.

Her 21-year-old son Luis Ariza was killed that May night by a special Venezuelan police force that has sown fear in the capital's slums. Gamarra is not alone in her heartache.