Downhill bike race takes over former violence hotspot in Caracas | AFP

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Cyclists speed through the tangled alleys and staircases of one of Latin America's largest slums, and Venezuela's biggest. In Caracas' Petare, home to 600,000 people and long plagued by gang violence, a downhill mountain bike race hopes initiatives like this will help the neighborhood shake off its reputation as a "dangerous" place.