FLORES WALKS IN DOWN THE MAIN STREET OF LOS ERASOS SLUM, 1999-07-22 (photo)

TO ACCOMPANY STORY BC-VENEZUELA-POLITICS - Jose Flores, 75, walks along the main street of Los Erasos, an infamously violent slum in the Venezuelan capital. Flores helped found Los Erasos during Venezuela's last dictatorship in 1958 when it was a forested brook at the bottom of a coffee estate. "I don't want a dictatorship, but I would prefer one to the democracy we have had until now," Flores said. Venezuelans vote July 25 for a Constitutional Assembly whose primary task is to rewrite the constitution, and which could dissolve Congress and the Supreme Court. Photo taken 16JUL99. KW/ZDC