President Maduro has proven highly resilient, weathering sanctions abroad and an economic crisis at home. His hybrid state creation helped him to do so.
El Koki
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In all of Latin America, Venezuela has a unique problem: constant grenade attacks by criminal gangs.
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Venezuelan security forces carry out violent invasions of neighborhoods controlled by gangs, but there is little evidence of their success.
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Four months after Venezuelan security forces killed gang boss and public enemy No. 1, El Koki, police in his former Caracas stronghold have suffered two separate grenade attacks – in …
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Brief
Honor Among Thieves – The Venezuela Manhunt for an Altruistic Mob Boss
by Mia Meyerby Mia MeyerIn December 2021, residents of Tejerías, a small city in the northern state of Aragua, Venezuela, started to notice strange events: wild parties in public plazas organized by a local …
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Security forces in Venezuela have killed a string of infamous gang bosses, indicating that the gangs are no longer operating with impunity as they have for years, though some have …
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Carlos Luis Revete, alias “El Koki” o “Coqui”,was one of Venezuela’s most wanted criminals and leader of the “megabanda” that controls the Cota 905 and La Vega districts in western …
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Venezuela’s Peace Zones were arguably some of the strongest evidence showcasing the odd, fluctuating relationship between organized crime and the government.
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Once the purview of Mexican drug cartels, the production of pro-gang songs that soothe the egos of powerful criminal overlords are swiftly becoming a region-wide phenomenon.
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Unsurprisingly, Caracas consumes more drugs than anywhere else in the country. And despite a catastrophic economic crisis, a handful of gangs continue to make strong profits from microtrafficking in the …