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But the Venezuelans were friendly too and although there were warnings about Caracas at night it wasn't that bad.

Talking with the Caracas locals (not living in the tower) it is seen as a bit of an embarrassment.

Moscow to Caracas is under 10K km so it should not be a problem.

So Caracas at least to me isn't the sort of place one would perceive as dangerous until something finally happens, and the statistics don't lie.

I visited Caracas and Isla de Margarita for about a week 10 years ago.

On reddit someone from Caracas posted pictures of a different skyscraper on fire for days because the fire department didn't have the equipment to fight it.

* Take power away from elected officials and create alternate institutions to replace them, when the electoral results don't favor the ruling party (see: Caracas Mayor).

But I had a teacher that worked in Electricidad de Caracas that said that it was a point of honor for residents of these slums to actually get a power meter.

A sales manager for Marriot was telling me that in Caracas they charge 40$ a night if you pay with USD or 300$ if you pay with bolívars.

Fun fact, even if you were paying in Bolivars way less, you still used to get Marriott points as if you were spending 600 dollars a night, so the quickest way to get a lot of points was staying at the Caracas Marriott.

I was very surprised to find Caracas at #9 in the linked article of most expensive cities in the world; Venezuela having a pro capita GDP of around $13K I would have expected the cost of life to be quite low.

This tower draws interest because of its unusual case of being a skyscraper exclusively inhabited by squatters, but in the end it is really nothing more than a vertical shantytown, much like the millions that are sprawled out over the rest of Caracas and in other major South American cities like Rio.

The capital, Caracas, is ranked as the second city with the highest murder rate in the world [1].

You would be amazed at the number of satellite TV antennas in all the slums in Caracas.

The police were chasing a commando group that tried to rob some jewelry stores in Caracas.