Zulia’s gasoline black market has disappeared as government policies and supply increases take effect. But will it soon return?
Oil Theft
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Hidalgo, Mexico faces a rise in violence connected to a parallel increase in oil theft.
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Mexico is seeing a rapid spike in oil theft across much of the country, with observers divided as to whether high gas prices have led to more robberies, or vice …
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A daring prison break in central Mexico was focused on freeing the leader of a relatively modest oil theft group, showing the importance of this criminal economy in parts of …
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The relief provided by Haiti’s gangs finally releasing their chokehold on the country’s oil supply may only be temporary.
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Cocaine, synthetic drugs, weapons, migrants, gasoline – this range of criminal economies has seen violence escalate in Mexico’s northern state of Tamaulipas.
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series of attacks on oil pipelines in Colombia’s northeastern department of Santander, for which the ELN has claimed responsibility, could be a show of strength ahead of the country’s upcoming …
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After the discovery of several elaborate tunnels used to siphon fuel to two hidden warehouses, it’s clear that Mexico’s gas theft rings have found success by going underground.
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Venezuelan officials may have finally met a PDVSA corruption scandal they cannot allow to go unpunished, hinting at just how dire the country’s oil and gas shortage has become.
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GameChangers 2020: Tren de Aragua and the Exportation of Venezuelan Organized Crime
by Sabra Bozychby Sabra BozychVenezuela has long been known as a strategic rearguard for Colombia guerrilla groups. Yet 2020 saw the acceleration of a newer dynamic: Venezuelan gangs now rival their Colombian counterparts in …