The 45-storey Centro Financiero Confinanzas — known to everyone as Torre de David — is the unfinished skyscraper that became the iconic image of Caracas's twenty-first-century decline. Construction began in 1990 as a banking headquarters but was halted in 1994 when the developer died and the country was hit by a banking crisis. The tower was never completed and never had elevators, glass walls, or interior fittings on most floors.
The squatter community that occupied the tower from 2007 to 2014 — with a thriving informal economy of grocery stores, hair salons, and even motorcycle taxis up to the 10th floor — was internationally documented before the government cleared the building. The shell remains in central Caracas, visible from much of the city. There is no visitor access. The building features in the film Tower of David and is referenced in the Netflix series Homeland.