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 caches of guns, drugs, swimming pools and restaurants — even a zoo. The facilities — which sometimes resembled luxury retreats for gang bosses rather than places of detention — were shuttered […]

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