CARACAS, Venezuela – As the opposition campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro dramatically escalated, the warren-like streets of the Puerta Caracas slum filled with pot-banging, anti-government ...

A masked gangster who goes by the nickname "El Negrito" poses for a portrait with his gun inside his gang's safe-house in the Petare slum of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 13, 2019. The 24-year-old, ...

The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas shares a name with the gang that runs it with impunity - Copyright AFP Yuri CORTEZ The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - In some of Latin America's largest slums ringing the Venezuelan capital, Cuban doctors vaccinate children, monitor pregnant women and conduct free eye tests where no medical ...

In this Feb. 9, 2019 photo, Monsignor Hector Lunar delivers his homily during a Mass in the Dulce Nombre de Jesus church, in the Petare slum of Caracas, Venezuela. Monsignor Hector Lunar, a beloved ...

The voice of Hugo Chavez thundered from speakers in a western Caracas slum, a daily reminder that this remains the late leader's turf, immune to protests from the wealthier east. The comandante's ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - In the sprawling slum of Petare in the east of Venezuela's capital of Caracas, 31-year-old Fabian Solymar begins sketching a mural of abstract figures on a wall filled with ...

A masked gangster who goes by the nickname "El Negrito" poses for a portrait with his gun inside his gang's safe-house in the Petare slum of Caracas, Venezuela. AP CARACAS, Venezuela — The feared ...

The three gangbangers are holed up in a small hut deep in the lush overgrowth of San Casimiro, a town two hours south of Caracas – and they’ll be there for the foreseeable future. They’re in hiding ...

It wasn't the reaction that Hugo Chavez was used to. Only a year ago the Venezuelan president paraded through Caracas slums like Woodrow Wilson on the Champs-Elysees. His roaring triumphs in five ...

One hot afternoon last week a truck braked to a halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children — ...