slum

The PA plan is not to recreate slums, but to make sure that tight-knit communities can be restored.

Murals, sculptures and other works depicting Hernandez have been inaugurated recently, including a large painting of his face on a wall in Petare, the biggest slum in Caracas.

One problem would be Venezuela’s infantry, which could hole up in the densely packed slums of Caracas and other cities.

It was a common scene in the slums of the Cambodian capital: warrens of huts wedged between garbage-strewn streets; tiny children begging for food at nearly every corner.

One of those counterproductive policies was slum clearance, which paved the way for public housing.