The Venezuelan authorities continue to clear the world's highest slum in Caracas

Caracas - Venezuelan authorities continue to clear the unfinished, 190-meter high skyscraper in the capital city of Caracas, known as "the world's tallest slum". A total of 160 out of the 1,156 families who settled illegally in the skyscraper have moved to housing projects in the south of the capital with police assistance, the DPA agency reported today.
The authorities justify their actions by stating that the 45-story high-rise - nicknamed David's Tower after the late builder David Brillembourg - is too dangerous due to missing walls and a number of other deficiencies. Several children have already died from falls in the unprotected stairways.
Construction of the skyscraper was halted by the death of investor Brillembourg in 1994 and the financial crisis in the country. The building then fell into state ownership and has deteriorated for years. An auction in 2001 failed. Six years later, homeless people began to occupy the building. They secured electricity and water supplies and set up gardens. In total, about 3,000 people eventually lived in the skyscraper.
The skyscraper also became one of the filming locations for the famous American television series Homeland.

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