Barrio rising [electronic resource] : urban popular politics and the making of modern Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco.

"In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a...

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