Thursday, September 21, 2017

Gold and Chaos: Gang Lords Rule Venezuela's Orinoco Mining Arc


The rise of organized crime in Venezuela's southern Bolívar region has been directly proportional to the state's neglect of local people and towns. Criminal gang lords impose terror using the same methods of extreme violence favored by the leaders of Venezuelan prisons, the pranes, turning the mining business into part of their criminal network. More…

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