guest_writer 0 2002-06-29T00:00:00Z The great city of Caracas spreads over innumerable mountainous hills, and in the rainy season the peaks poke up through the clouds that hover in the valleys below. Several million people live on these steep slopes in barrios, a word which, when translated into English as "shanty towns", does little justice to the reality. These are not just settlements of corrugated iron and wattle and daub, but m... Richard 47703 false false false false 2002-06-29T00:00:00Z Gott 2046 11947 0 1 Silent Majority a-silent-majority-finds-its-voice-by-richard-gott A Silent Majority Finds Its Voice 2009-09-25T09:18:56Z 11065