CARACAS, June 17 (Reuters) - Angel Caballero's experience in business administration may have helped get him a job with Venezuela's Banesco bank, but it was his knowledge of Caracas' poor barrios that ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The last time he ran for re-election, President Hugo Chávez won comfortably in Petare, one of Latin America's biggest slums with nearly half a million people. This time around, as ...

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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's government is employing harsher measures in one of Caracas' largest barrios to ensure residents comply with a coronavirus quarantine, as many poor Venezuelans continue ...

The crime-ridden barrio of Petare on Caracas’ east side is, for obvious reasons, not considered much of a tourist destination. The rundown neighborhood is packed with cinder-block shacks, and its ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Before daybreak on January 8, several dozen police officers swept through the streets of Barrio Kennedy, a hillside slum outside Venezuela's capital. Some of the officers came ...

CARACAS, Venezuela—It’s Friday night, and Detective Bultron Angel of the Chacao police is playing God. With 22 cameras placed in strategic locations throughout his district, Angel is capable of ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At nightfall in one corner of Venezuela's largest and most notorious barrio, all eyes turned to the glow of a temporary movie screen set up on a hillside terrace atop stacked ...

Venezuela has one of the highest rates of homicide in the Americas. Those who are dying are mostly men, and most are shot. Based on ethnographic research in poor, urban neighborhoods in Caracas, where ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CARACAS, Venezuela • The last time he ran for re-election, President Hugo Chavez won comfortably in Petare, one of Latin ...