11.   In a sprawling shanty town of flimsy shacks, unpaved streets and hopes strained by unrelenting poverty, Rosa Lugo is a woman on a mission.

12.   Inside is a tiny two-bedroom, one-bath dwelling, spotless but cluttered, in the midst of a giant shanty town.

13.   Margarita had been born in a shanty town called Nuevo Eden.

14.   Most of the murders, often of teenagers, occur in the shanty towns on the periphery.

15.   Men descend through holes in the ground like rats to reach garbage-strewn shanty towns.

16.   Rats are at home on farms, in shanty towns, in the squalor of modern housing projects and plague-ridden medieval cities.

17.   The future inhabitants of Sao Paolo, Bombay, Lagos, Jakarta and the like will live in squalid shanty towns with inadequate water and little sanitation.

18.   They also note that Chacao is the wealthiest municipality in the nation and that running it is a pushover compared with the seething shanty towns.

19.   Open sewage runs through the shanty town, and piles of garbage dot the unpaved alleys.

20.   A shanty town of street vendors and army veterans was razed for a park despite fierce protests from the inhabitants, one of whom hanged himself.