Caracas, Venezuela: 'The New Leftist Mecca'

"Evoking other cities transformed by revolutionary leaders, like Managua in 1979 or Havana 20 years before that, Caracas is attracting students, celebrities, academics, activists, grandmothers and 1970s-era hippies -- a new generation of Sandalistas, as some call them.

Some, including Americans, have come to stay. But others have come for a new brand of revolutionary tourism organized by the government or by private groups."