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Moritz, BBC News. For Our World this week, film`maker

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Olly Lambert visits Venezuela and the capital's unfinished skyscraper,

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the Tower of David, to find a community of squatters who have made

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it their home. This is the Tower of David in the

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heart of Caracas. It was designed in the 1980s and was supposed to become

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the centre of Venezuelan's banking industry. Halfway through building

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it, the project was scrapped when money ran out. Now, it is a monument

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to Venezuelan's crumbling economy. ``Venezuela. Today, it is home to

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over 2000 squatters, a kind of vertical slalom. They have

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transformed the tower into a thriving and ordered society. ``

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slum. It is now a community where people

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live, work, and raise their families in safety.

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I spent two weeks in the tower. How could these people have built a

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century in the ruins of a skyscraper? In one of the most

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violent cities in the world? `` sanctuary.

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When President Hugo Chavez died a year ago, he left behind a turbulent

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nation. His successor, Nicolas Maduro, has been struggling to keep

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it grip on Venezuelan ever since. `` keep a grip. As well as food

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shortages and massive inflation, it is one of the kidnapping and murder

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capitals of the world. Seven years ago, a group of squatters saw this

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derelict half built skyscraper as they do it yourself solution to

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Venezuelan 's chronic housing shortage.

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With housing in Caracas in such sort supply, there is not much

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opportunity. The residents are on a waiting list and every square foot

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is in demand. But millions of people across

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Venezuela see things differently. They regard the government's

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socialist policies as the cause of the country's troubles. And many are

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calling on the President to resign. Clashes between the protesters and

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the police have left many dead on both sides.

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Friday was the warmest day of the year so far as we got within 24

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Celsius. We could beat that in the days ahead. Some very warm weather

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in the forecast. Our weather is never that straightforward. For some

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of us, there will be rain over the

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