Petare, the Venezuelan slum that not needs Nicolas Maduro | EUROtoday

It’sis a large shantytown on the mountainside the place hundreds of purple brick homes with tin roofs are stacked. A kind of cardboard fort as unstable as it’s fascinating which rises so far as the attention can see. More than one million folks stay alongside its slender streets and steep staircases. Nestled west of Caracas, Petare could be the barrio the most important in Latin America, a time period utilized in Venezuela to imply slum, just like the expression villa miseria in Argentina or favela in Brazil.

On the night of the presidential election on July 28, residents of the neighborhood have been shocked to study of the “official” outcomes which confirmed Nicolas Maduro because the winner. However, within the polling stations of Petare, the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, had misplaced…