Hugo Chavez's distopia by Stephen
Caracas Venezuela is a overcrowded metropolis squeezed in between mountains with the ramshackle colonias full of the poor covering the hills surrounding the city. The thing I remember from my visit was the passion of the people both for and against President Chavez who has attempted to socialize the country, disenfranchising the middle class. With currency controls, a black market exists to convert dollars, and the whole economy is dysfunctional because so many things that we take for granted outside of Venezuela can not be bought there. There isn’t even a reliable postal system. Venezuela has to be experienced in person to get a sense of how repression can still exist in the modern age.
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Caracas (pronounced [kaˈɾakas]) is the capital and largest city of Venezuela. It is located in the north of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley's te
