Venezuela plan to turn notorious prison into cultural centre scrubs past horrors, critics say
The move is among several measures the acting president has touted since Maduro’s capture – yet critics say it erases Venezuela’s long history of repressionIt was designed in the 1950s...
By Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent · The Guardian World
The move is among several measures the acting president has touted since Maduro’s capture – yet critics say it erases Venezuela’s long history of repression It was designed in the 1950s to be the world’s first “drive-through shopping centre”, a futuristic structure with more than than two miles of ramps looping past 300 shops, as well as cinemas, a hotel, a private club, a concert hall and a heliport. But the building was never completed, and under the regimes of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro , spaces envisioned as shops were turned into cells, and El Helicoide became Venezuela ’s most notorious torture centre for political prisoners. Continue reading...