The black market for gasoline is quickly disappearing in Venezuela's oil-rich state of Zulia as changing government policies and supply increases chip away at one of the state's biggest criminal economies.
Gas stations in the northeastern state maintained short, orderly lines when InSight Crime traveled to Zulia's capital earlier this year. Obtaining fuel required no covert stops at the houses of black-market vendors, known as pimpineros, nor were their stalls anywhere to be found.
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