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Security forces have seized Bitcoin mining machines, rocket launchers and machine guns with thousands of belts of ammunition

World

Venezuelan prison crackdown: criminal purge or political ‘show’?

Since September, Venezuela has deployed thousands of security force members to wrest control of seven prisons from the hands of powerful gangs — finding...

AFPNovember 10, 2023

Venezuelan authorities show off the weapons they seized when they stormed the gang-held Tocoron jail with 11,000 police and soldiers

World

Gang bosses fled Venezuela prison before troops moved in: NGO

Gang leaders who ruled a prison in Venezuela that was stormed by more than 11,000 soldiers and police had fled the country before the...

AFPSeptember 23, 2023

Inside a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center, widely known as the megaprison, in Tecoluca, El Salvador

World

Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison holding 12,000 alleged gangsters

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s relentless war on gangs is steadily filling the cellblocks of a massive prison that may be Latin America’s largest. At...

AFPAugust 22, 2023

Venezuela's Attorney General Tarek William Saab gives a press conference about the recent anti-corruption drive against state oil company PDVSA

World

Venezuela corruption probe nets 42 officials

More than 40 people have been arrested in Venezuela in an anti-corruption drive sweep of state oil company PDVSA and other related government bodies,...

AFPApril 2, 2023

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