How a Food Program Fueled Venezuela’s Organized Crime
Venezuela · Latin America + Caribbean region
<p><a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/how-a-food-program-fueled-venezuelas-organized-crime/">How a Food Program Fueled Venezuela’s Organized Crime</a></p>
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<p>Delcy Rodríguez’s silent dismantling of a subsidized food program shutters a scheme that epitomized the intersection of organized crime and the Venezuelan state. The apparent discontinuation of the food subsidy program marks the end of an era in which hunger was exploited and instrumentalized by both corruption networks within the state and allied and hybrid criminal groups that strengthened their power through the food boxes they obtained.</p>
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