A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela

The Guardian reports that two powerful earthquakes have reduced a government housing project in the Venezuelan resort town of Caraballeda to rubble, leaving shattered concrete and broken lives. The complex, known as OPPE 25, was one of the tower-block developments ordered built under the late Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution. According to the paper, discontent is mounting in what was once a stronghold of support, as Chávez's heirs struggle to respond to a disaster they appear ill-prepared to handle. Residents like Gabriel González, who received the keys to his apartment in twenty thirteen, now find themselves amid the wreckage.

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