A homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk in June in front of a parking lot where the Venice Dell project has been planned at Venice Boulevard and Main Street in Venice. A former staffer for Mayor Karen Bass responsible for expediting affordable housing developments told The Times that his superiors directed him to stop advancing Venice Dell through city bureaucracy …
Dominican President Luis Abinader celebrates reports of the early vote alongside his vice president, Raquel Peña, left, and wife, Raquel Arbaje, Sunday in Santo Domingo. Dominican President Luis Abinader is headed to a second term following Sunday’s general election, declaring victory after his top competitors conceded early in the night as he held a strong lead in early vote tallies. …
Rebecca Dannenbaum, 48, and her dog Pop-Tart live in a pedestrian tunnel, to the left, where she and other homeless people have been living. So why is she silent as the city attorney slow-walks, or possibly sabotages, a project for homeless and affordable housing on a city-owned parking lot in Venice? After competitively scoring the applicants, the City Council and …
For several months, bodies wrapped in plastic, some dismembered, have appeared on the streets of Colombia’s capital Bogota — grim proof of an escalating vendetta between rival Venezuelan gangs. These are “violent murders by strangulation, firearms or also with knives and a lot of cruelty,” security minister Anibal Fernandez de Soto told AFP. Initially, the gangs took “control of territory …
