Caracas (Venezuela) | Life

As cosmopolitan and captivating as it can be depressing, Caracas has all the assets of a big city - great restaurants, plush hotels, theatre, museums, nightlife, shopping - and many of the problems - petty crime, grinding poverty, ... decline in the 1980s and 90s, and the thousands of rural dwellers who rushed to find wealth in the big metropolis now lead a precarioushand-to-mouth existence in the ramshackle huts that cover the steep hills surrounding the city center. ...