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Judi Lynn

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:04 AM Feb 2014

Venezuela’s revolutionary government has millions of fans despite deadly protests

Venezuela’s revolutionary government has millions of fans despite deadly protests

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, the late Chavez’s anointed successor, declared this week the government he inherited has built a total of 600,000 new housing units for the poor. A grateful Maria Castillo is one of them -- and one of millions of supporters of the revolutionary government.

By: Oakland Ross Feature Writer, Published on Wed Feb 26 2014

CARACAS—Maria Castillo felt as if her life was literally slipping away beneath her feet — because, literally, it was.

“The land was sliding away,” she recalls now. “Our houses were falling down.”

That was three years ago, when the impoverished hillside barrio of Antimano la Piedrera began its irresistible descent toward oblivion, the result of heavy rains and gravity.

One of countless precarious shanty towns clustered upon the steep hills surrounding this raucous South American capital, Antimano la Piedrera was home to more than 100 families whose lives, like their houses, were slowly breaking apart.

More:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/02/26/venezuelas_revolutionary_government_has_millions_of_fans_despite_deadly_protests.html

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