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 ...

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There is one toilet block for the hundreds of people — at the back of the terrace behind ... The late Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela encouraged slum-dwellers in the capital city of Caracas to ...

His death came as Venezuela's top prosecutor announced that roughly a fourth of the 2,000 people detained in connection with post-election demonstrations had been granted prison release orders.

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.