In the wake of Venezuela’s hyperinflation and economic woes, the country has come to rely on dwindling oil exports, remittances and the smuggling of fuel, drugs and gold to prop up its increasingly dollarized economy ...READ MORE
"Criminals were a de facto state prior to the virus. In many places, they have now become the state," warns InSight Crime [in a recent article on organized crime and coronavirus dynamics].
InSight Crime reveals that [the drug pathway] starts on the Venezuelan shore, then it goes to Trinidad and then to the rest of the Caribbean islands, before it reaches its final destination in the United States or Europe.
