Maduro’s El Dorado: Gangs, guerrillas and gold in Venezuela

 

This investigation exposes how the Maduro regime’s attempts to control Venezuela’s mining heartland in the state of Bolívar has led to criminal chaos, as guerrilla groups, heavily armed gangs and corrupt state elements battle over the country’s gold.





By Insight Crime

Nov 17, 2021

CHAPTER 1         

The Governors, the Gang and the War for Bolívar’s Gold

ELITES AND CRIME/ 17 NOV 2021

On November 5, 2019, threatening pamphlets appeared on the streets of El Callao, a mining town in Venezuela’s eastern state of Bolívar.

CHAPTER 2         

Metal Hands and Rubber Feet: Colombian Guerrillas and Venezuelan Gold

ELITES AND CRIME/ 17 NOV 2021

Armed men ambushed a group of gold miners near the Corre Gente mine in the municipality of Sifontes, near to Venezuela’s border with Guyana.

CHAPTER 3          

‘The Rebel of the South’: Rise of the R Organization

ELITES AND CRIME/ 17 NOV 2021

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