The state prosecutor's office is investigating the deaths of a 21-year-old man in eastern Sucre state on Saturday, another 21-year-old man in the Caracas slum of Petare on Thursday, and a 42-year ...

enriching a moneyed elite even as the poor cling to life in hillside shanty towns like the Petare slum above Caracas, home to half a million people. Despite gaping inequality, however, Venezuela ...

Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio’s hillside favelas, Caracas’ ranchos, Santiago’s callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year ...

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 ...