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Jerry Jackson 0 Comment World Hugo Chavez, poverty, Venezuela
Venezuelan soldiers and officials began moving hundreds of families Tuesday out of a half-built 45-story skyscraper that dominates the Caracas skyline and is thought to be the world’s tallest slum.
The mass eviction from the “Tower of David,” originally intended to be a bank center but abandoned since 1994 and later home to some 3,000 needy Venezuelans, proceeded peacefully.
“Necessity brought me here, and the tower gave me a good home,” said Yuraima Parra, 27, cradling her baby daughter as soldiers loaded her possessions into a truck before dawn.
“I was here for seven years. I’m going to miss it, but it’s time to move on.”
Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Angela Merkel, Belarus, bird flu, chickens, China, Cusacks, elephants, farmers, figure skating, fire, flooding, Formula One, Germany, Hydrocephalus, India, Italy, lions, Myanmar, Paris, pigs, poverty, rainbow, Rio de Janeiro, Roger Ebert, Stephen Sondheim, volcano
Angela Merkel muffins served in Germany, poverty continues its devastating toll in India, the volcanic Mount Etna erupts in Italy, poultry production ramps up rapid testing for H7N9 in China and more in today’s daily brief.