Chavez's utopian dream
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gazes out from a mural in Caracas. Hovering over a sun-baked mountain one day in his presidential helicopter, Chavez had a dream: to build a utopian city that would showcase socialism in Venezuela.
Slowly and chaotically over the years, the project - named "Ciudad Caribia" for the country's indigenous Carib people - began to take shape on the mountain's ridges and plateaus.
A woman stands at a window in a building bearing a mural Chavez's signature.
A mural of the late President adorns a wall.
A woman leans out of her apartment, a floor above a window bearing a poster of Chavez.
A woman feeds her baby as she sells ice cream outside her apartment.
A student carries a backpack bearing the image of national independence hero Simon Bolivar (2nd right).
Boys stand on mechanical public exercise machines.
A boy plays at a basketball court in Ciudad Caribia.
A woman stands outside her apartment underneither a portrait of the late Venezuelan President.
A man reads a newspaper in his apartment next to a portrait of Chavez.
The late leader smiles out from a banner, as women work in a bakery.
A boy rides a bicycle past apartment buildings in Ciudad Caribia.
