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The case of the Helicoide, the fact that 
it was constructed above a hill that

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was called the “Tarpeya Rock” is very significant 
because Tarpeya is

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the emblem of betrayal. The Tarpeya Rock 
is the seventh

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Roman hill from which Tarpeya was thrown 
for having betrayed

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the city by opening the gates to the barbarians. 
 When in Venezuela, in Caracas,

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the seventh hill is named Tarpeya,

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it already has an important symbolic load; 
after one begins to see

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that the rock is cut in two, it is divided.

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There are architects themselves who have 
told me that the problem with the Helicoide 
is that the spiral

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girates towards the left, and not towards 
the right, that is, the same as the swastika, 
in the direction of destruction.

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In the year of 1992, the Ministry

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of Environment and Natural Renewable Resources, 
a very interesting and fairly avantguard 
project

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that was aspired to be completed at that 
time in Venezuela,

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was going to be implemented in the Helicoide 
which was going to be converted into the 
Ministry.

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They begin, the two architects, Julio Coll 
y Jorge Catillo.

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One of them was a chaman who had done a meditation 
sitting at the top

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of the last level of the Helicoide to ask

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and understand what was happening with all 
the

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projects that failed. The original project 
failed as well as all

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the other projects that came after in the 
70’s and 80’s,

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of converting it, of repurposing in a cultural 
center, of converting it

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into a mall, or whatever it was. And so, 
they say that in one way or another

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it is to be understood that there had been 
an indigenous cemetery in the

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same plot and that, well, when it was ravaged, 
the Helicoide, well, they had taken on all 
the dead buried there, like someone would 
say.

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And there was a change of government, and 
because another party came to power, it took

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from their hands the environmental center 
and it was given to

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the police intelligence directive, who

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had been the one that was installed since 
‘85, since 1985 in the Helicoide.

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It is always thought that the Helicoide was 
done by Marcos Perez Jimenez. It was not 
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by the dictator Marcos Perez Jimenes; it 
was done; it was conceived and

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begun under his dictatorship, but that doesn’t 
mean that

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it was his own work. He was doing a grand

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piece beyond urbanization, all the urban 
infrastructure,

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above all the one of Caracas was attributed 
to Perez Jimenez, but

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this was an independent project because it 
was a private initiative to make a mall, 
and it undoubtedly

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had the positive regards of Perez Jimenez, 
who was also there when the architectural 
models were inaugurated, etc.

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But, once Perez Jimenez falls,

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the project of the Helicoide also falls, 
in part

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because democracy did not want to continue 
the project of Perez Jimenez, it wants to 
disengage

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from a project that is related to Perez Jimenez, 
but also because

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Perez Jimenez’s fall leaves a moment, let’s 
say, leaves a substantially

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chaotic situation above all in the field 
of construction.