{"id":77351,"date":"2024-08-16T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=77351"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:48:42","slug":"deep-dive-into-the-21st-century-criminal-hybrid-state-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/deep-dive-into-the-21st-century-criminal-hybrid-state-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Dive into the 21st Century Criminal Hybrid State of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77328 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Commie787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Commie787.jpg 525w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Commie787-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Commie787-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Commie787-300x302.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"!font-display text-fluid1 leading-5 font-bold text-gray900 light:text-gray900 dark:text-gray100 break-words\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/2093642\/venezuela-crime-nicolas-maduro--caracas-geopolitique\">These criminal groups support Nicolas Maduro<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-jbo7hw-7 bmRUOl\">To remain at the head of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez&#8217;s successor relies on a powerful criminal network that would have everything to lose from its eventual defeat.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"sc-jbo7hw-7 bmRUOl\">For years, Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s regime has relied on a complex network of criminal groups that support him in exchange for\u2019 access to territory and resources. This is\u2019 a hybrid criminal governance model, according to the NGO\u00a0<span lang=\"en\" title=\"English\">InSight Crime<\/span>.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"sc-jbo7hw-7 bmRUOl\">This alliance, which began under the government of Hugo Chavez (1999-2013), was, s\u2019 was accentuated in 2015 following the global drop in oil prices and the deterioration of the country&#8217;s\u2019 economy.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"sc-jbo7hw-7 bmRUOl\">With traditional revenues no longer sufficient, President Maduro has turned to criminal rents to maintain the loyalty of key political and military figures, McDermott said in an interview, co-founder and co-director of&#8217;<span lang=\"en\" title=\"English\">InSight Crime<\/span>.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"sc-jbo7hw-7 bmRUOl\">Nicolas Maduro therefore gave them jobs in border areas where they had access to drug control, smuggling and human trafficking.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/2093642\/venezuela-crime-nicolas-maduro--caracas-geopolitique\">RTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title \" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/investigations\/rise-criminal-hybrid-state-venezuela\/\">Rise of the Criminal Hybrid State in Venezuela\u00a0 (5 Part Series)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66541 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Anti-Commie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Anti-Commie.jpg 941w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Anti-Commie-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Anti-Commie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Anti-Commie-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Anti-Commie-850x850.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These criminal groups support Nicolas Maduro &nbsp; To remain at the head of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez&#8217;s successor relies on a powerful criminal network that would have everything to lose from its eventual defeat. For years, Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s regime has relied on a complex network of criminal groups that support him in exchange for\u2019 access to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6743,5445,2280,2717,5477,8560,9614,14643,14588,5594,2004,5944,475,476,14412,8543,6265,5396,5729,5770,483,484,10173],"tags":[8071,1868,17835,6540,761,9676,1565,8555],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77353,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77351\/revisions\/77353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}