By Andrew Cawthorne CIUDAD CARIBIA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Hovering over a sun-baked mountain one day in his presidential helicopter, Hugo Chavez had a dream: to build a utopian city that would showcase socialism in Venezuela. Slowly and chaotically over the years that followed, the late president's pet project – conceived a decade into his rule and named "Ciudad Caribia" for the country's indigenous Carib people – began to take shape on the mountain 10 km (6 miles) northwest of the capital, Caracas. "This was his dream. …

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