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Caracas at night is a different city than Caracas in daylight, and a travel vlogger just walked through both.

Anton, the traveler behind the channel “Anton is here,” spent his stay in Caracas documenting a place that during this era carries one of the grimmest reputations on earth: a capital where gunfire is background noise and grocery shelves sit empty a few miles from a manicured golf course. His footage moves between armed barrios, hyperinflated markets, and Venezuela’s carnival streets, stitching together a picture of a country running on contradictions.

• Anton films high-risk barrios where robbery, murder, and express kidnapping are described as routine, with locals noting that daily firearm deaths reach extreme levels.
• The video contrasts an active, upscale golf course in a wealthy enclave against grocery stores with bare shelves elsewhere in the city.
• Hyperinflation distortions include gasoline priced around $0.075 for a full tank, an $8.42 roll of toilet paper, and McDonald’s fries reported at up to $130.

Inside the Barrios

The most dangerous stretches of Caracas, as Anton documents them, aren’t abstract statistics — they’re specific streets where residents told him the math is grim: staying alert to your surroundings and carrying nothing you can’t afford to hand over is basic survival practice. “Most of the crimes happen exactly in these districts – robbery, murders, kidnapping,” is how it’s put in the footage, a blunt summary of neighborhoods where the same routes are safe by day and lethal by night.

The video’s framing of the city echoes coverage of other notoriously violent urban zones that travel documentarians have chronicled elsewhere, from Kingston’s Tivoli and Trench Town to cartel-controlled territory in Latin America. What separates Caracas in Anton’s telling is scale — entire districts where an average of roughly 30 shootings a day is treated as an unremarkable fact of life rather than a crisis headline.

The Golf Course Next to the Empty Shelves

A few minutes’ drive from those barrios, the footage shifts entirely. Anton walks a wealthy enclave with a fully active golf course — manicured greens, players out on the course, no sign of the scarcity gripping the rest of the city. The line that anchors the segment says it plainly:

“Huge golf fields. And they are not empty, unlike shelves in the shops.”

That single contrast — country clubs functioning normally while ordinary grocery stores can’t keep basic goods in stock — is the through-line of the whole documentary. It’s the same juxtaposition that’s made other deep-inequality tours, like walkthroughs of mega-mansions or backyard-waterpark estates, land so hard: wealth insulates a small slice of a population almost entirely from a collapse everyone else is living through.

Hyperinflation’s Absurd Price Tags

The numbers Anton documents are less “economic crisis” and more surreal arithmetic. Subsidized gasoline runs about $0.075 for a full tank — essentially free — while a single roll of toilet paper costs $8.42 and a portion of McDonald’s fries has been priced as high as $130. The gap exists because of distorted exchange rates and an import crunch that’s strangled the supply of basic consumer goods, leaving prices for anything imported to spike wildly while government-subsidized staples like fuel stay artificially cheap.

It’s the kind of economic distortion that’s been mapped elsewhere in different forms — see how supply shocks reshape commodity pricing — but rarely at the extremes Venezuela hits, where a tank of gas and a roll of toilet paper sit on opposite ends of the price spectrum by a factor of more than a hundred.

Carnival, Drones, and a Security State on Edge

Between the barrios and the golf courses, Anton also captures Venezuela’s carnival — crowds, color, and street life that push back against the grim reputation, even briefly. But the security backdrop isn’t far off. The video references the 2018 drone assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro, when an explosive-rigged drone detonated near him during a public event. The fallout from that attempt is still shaping daily life for anyone carrying recording equipment: authorities heavily restrict drone and copter use nationwide, and operators have been detained across the country simply for flying one.

Anton wraps his tour without a tidy resolution — because there isn’t one. Caracas is still the city where a golf swing and a gunshot can happen within a few miles of each other on the same afternoon, and nothing in the footage suggests that’s changing anytime soon.