VENEZUELA. Caracas. 2019. A young man talks on the phone near a cross in 23 de enero neighborhood, a ghetto which has long history with political transitions of Venezuela.

In the 1980s, it produced the powerful Revolutionary Tupamaros Movement, an urban guerilla group that formed a strategic alliance in prison with former president Hugo Chaves following his failed 1992 military coup. Now, the Tupamaros group is a national movement and one of Venezuella’s many colectivos, left wing armed groups that operate on the street of caracas. Members of the group consider themselves the guardians of Chavez’s social revolution.