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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today what can one building tell us about Venezuela?

Venezuela.

Venezuela's in a crisis that's now dragging in the rest of the world. The economy's

tanking, wages are worth nothing, hospitals are out of medicine, cities are without

power, and there are two people who claim to be president.

We wanted to find out what's actually going on in Venezuela,

which is where this building comes in.

Stand almost anywhere in the capital, Caracas and you can see it. It's a place that takes you

into the darkness of what is happening inside Venezuela at the moment. For the last year

Karanina Velandia, who's a BBC reporter from Venezuela, has been trying to find

out what is going on inside. It called a lelecoide the helicoid that's basically because of the shape I would say that it looks more like a

space ship basically you have ramps and you can go you can drive all the way up and

then down and it's just a massive concrete structure that when you see when you see it is like my in a movie in a different planet because it's

very very unusual. From what you're describing it sort of feels like something

what that it's just

landed in the city yes something like that there's nothing else you can find in the city

similar to that is really really unique because the other thing very peculiar

is that it was built around a rock.

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