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 ...

12/07/2024 December 7, 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!

A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armoured vehicle. 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 ...

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 ...

CARACAS - A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armored vehicle. For 48 hours he has ducked flying bullets.

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 ...

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. More ...

Life In The Crossfire Of Venezuela's Slums. By Patrick FORT, Margioni BERM?DEZ Published 07/26/21 AT 12:42 AM EDT.

A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armored vehicle. For 48 hours he has ducked flying bullets.He is not on a battlefield but rather in a suburb of ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — This country is a kleptocracy ruled incompetently by thugs who are turning a prosperous oil-exporting nation into a failed state sliding toward starvation.

Caracas: Miriam Gamarra, a 39 year old bank employee living in a tough part of Caracas, remembers feeling an ache in her chest when she heard the gun ...

Miriam Gamarra, a 39-year-old bank employee living in a tough part of Caracas, remembers feeling an ache in her chest when she heard the gunshots in the distance as she was heading to work. "Lord ...