VOCATIV
Founded in 2011, Vocativ is a New York City–based news platform for reporting, sharing, and discussing global stories on social and political change, the economy, and technology. The company aims to show how “individual stories fit together into a broader, global narrative.” The following video was released in August 2013, while the company was still in beta. It discusses Torre de David, or Tower of David, the third-highest structure in Venezuela. Construction began on the tower in 1990, but it was halted in 1994 due to a banking crisis and the death of investor David Brillembourg, after whom the tower is named. The government seized control of the building, but in 2007, amidst a major housing crisis, residents of Caracas moved in to the abandoned structure. More than 2,500 squatters now live in what has been called the “world’s tallest slum.”
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