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Abandoned Office Tower, Now World's Tallest Slum! HD

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Channel: Touronama · 2014 · Entertainment

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El Torre de David, a towering 45-story skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, is a towering monument to the country's crippling banking crisis and to the poverty experienced by the majority the city's population.
The unfinished tower has stood abandoned for almost 20 years since the death of its developer in 1994. Due to the banking crisis that followed, construction was never resumed. Although the building was forgotten by its investors, it was not forgotten by the impoverished people of Caracas, a city in which nearly 70% of residents live in slums.
Over the past 8 years, it has slowly been repopulated by people who have been forming a community to help run the building and make it inhabitable. As of 2012, 750 families live in the building. That number is now probably even higher. The building is complete with its own infrastructure and economy -- residents pool money to maintain electricity and running water, and there are working stores, a church and even a gym located throughout the structure.
Although some fear that the building may serve as a haven for murderers and drug dealers, it has also provided many of Caracas' poor with a place to live and reassemble their lives.

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