In a city full of flagrant contradictions, the walls of Caracas make an early and unsettling impression. Drivers on the highways of the richer suburbs peer through their tinted glass
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In the days before the April 2003 presidential
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William C. Morris is devastated, but somehow its inhabitants stagger on. A few young men, powered by boredom and adrenaline, annex its dirt streets with revolvers once night falls. Mothers
