Like around 500K live in favelas, perhaps (adding up Petare and small favelas around Petare like Caucaguita, La Dolorita, etc, and the small favelas of Las Minas and La Palomera in Baruta).
Like 700K or more are middle to upper class, if we add up the population or the municipalities of Chacao, most of Baruta (excluding the small favelas of Las Minas and La Palomera), El Hatillo, and the middle class part of the municipality of Sucre (parish of Leoncio Martinez and the middle class "urbanizaciones" of Palo Verde, Miranda, Terrazas del Avila, Lomas del Avila, etc).
Las Minas never has been that bad, since it is a small favela of only 4 square Kilometers, and surrounded in all directions by middle/upper class neighborhoods (urbanizaciones), and as I have said is not a place of extreme poverty, but is a place where streets are paved, with sport fields, with many business like small super markets, locksmith stores, stationery stores, mechanical workshops, bakeries, etc. I posted a video of this favela at the end of page 10 (post number 100). I see it on the positive side: that even in there there are some few white people, aside of some mestizos (not only black admixed people).
Here is the video of Las Minas again:
IDK, maybe when Venezuela was very very bad (period between 2014-2017) things got worse in there, and most of the white people like them (the two females that I mentioned) left, but currently (that Venezuela is doing better) things are maybe not that bad in there nowadays.
PD: The municipality of Baruta has more than 530,000 inhabitants. Lets say that around 100,000 people live in the favelas of Las Minas and La Palomera, and the remaining 400k+ of the population of the municipality of Baruta are middle to upper class people who live in middle to upper class neighborhoods (called "urbanizaciones" in Venezuela).
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