I have been to Caracas three times.
I will quit my job rather than go again.
.Those mountainsides crammed with thousands of shacks are unbelievable. I can envision the shirtless ones descending like army ants and destroying Chavez' Peronist visions of grandeur. I don't thing the army would fire on the peasants.
Caracas is creepy also. There's like a dark, brooding aura to the place. Maybe because its so hemmed in all around by eerie, foreboding mountains.
The city crawls with pickpockets. There's beautiful walled-off tropical enclaves in the city where the rich people and the oil baron families live. The Rockefellers used to have an estate there......don't know if any of the family still uses the residence.
The local oil barons should throw in with the peasants.
Leni