Venezuelan Cartel

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/opinion/venezuela-maduro-the-new-regional-crime-hub.html

Venezuela, the New Regional Crime Hub

https://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/drug-trafficking-venezuelan-regime-cartel-of-the-sun/

Drug Trafficking Within the Venezuelan Regime: The ‘Cartel of the Suns’

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/16/c_137327868.htm

Venezuela seizes 16 tons of drugs in 2018

https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/07...ade-venezuela-is-worth-taking-seriously/

Why Trump’s proposal to invade Venezuela is worth taking seriously

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...ela-s-first-lady-on-drug-trafficking-cha

New York Jury Convicts Nephews of Venezuela's First Lady On Drug Trafficking Charges

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/world/americas/venezuela-is-cocaine-hub-despite-its-claims.html

Cocaine’s Flow Is Unchecked in Venezuela

https://www.insightcrime.org/venezuela-organized-crime-news/cartel-de-los-soles-profile/

Cartel of the Suns

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch...-in-venezuela-cartels-are-part-of-regime

Report: In Venezuela, Cartels Are Part of Regime

https://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/seven-reasons-venezuela-mafia-state/

7 Reasons for Describing Venezuela as a ‘Mafia State’

https://www.breitbart.com/national-...zuelan-vp-shifted-head-russia-relations/

Islamist Venezuelan VP Shifted to Head of Russia Relations

The average salary in Venezuela is 20 dollars?! How easy do you think it is for a powerhouse like the Ndrangheta or Sinaloa Cartel to buy everyone in there including the president? I mean , you give the millitary a salary of 4-500 dollars a month and they are at your service , maybe? i dont know how it is there.

You are correct their economic situation makes them vulnerable for corruption.
The mafia has been operating there for decades prior to the regime take over. They now gone from bad to worse making corruption rampant in all levels of society including government.

It´s not a cartel like in the past, but groups inside Venezuela's military that traffic cocaine.

Even the dutch military is involved,

DRUGS FOUND IN MILITARY BARRACKS IN DOORN
By Janene Pieters on July 18, 2018 - 11:30
Sixteen sports bags full of drugs were discovered in a material container on the terrain of the Van Braam Houckgeest barracks in Doorn on Tuesday. It involved dozens of kilograms of what seems to be cocaine, the Koninklijke Marechausssee, a policing force that works as part of the Dutch military, said on Twitter.

The drugs were sent to the Netherlands Forensic Institution for testing.

Soldiers who had been on Sint Maarten to provide support after Hurricane Irma found the drugs, a spokesperson for Defense said to NOS. The container came from the island. The soldiers say they did not know the container had drugs in it.

Venezuela really seems to be a major hub for the cocaine trade. Aside from corruption in the military I don't really think it's native Venezuelans doing the big time trafficking. It's more groups with roots in Italy and Colombia that set up shop and work in schemes behind the curtains.

Most of cocaine via the Suriname and Dutch Caribbean routes to Europe comes from Venezuela.

Yeah it's a huge hub. There's gangs from Curaçao sourcing that stuff in Venezuela and smuggling it right into Rotterdam. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.newsmax.com/luisfleischman/chavez-ortega/2018/07/18/id/872504/

Nicaragua a Tragic Story of Deception, Opportunism, and Russia

The role of Suriname as an export country for cocaine is increasing enormously. In Rotterdam, but also other European countries are seeing a boom in cocaine from Suriname. Not suprising when a former military leader and convicted drug trafficker is the President of the country.

http://www.nearshoreamericas.com/laura-chinchilla-mafia-nicaragua-venezuela/

Ex-President of Costa Rica: “Mafia Has Taken Over” in Nicaragua and Venezuela

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07...rcent-in-collapsing-socialist-venezuela/

Inflation to Hit 1 Million Percent in Collapsing, Socialist Venezuela

in venezuela sicilian mafia is by far stronger than ndrangheta

Yes you are correct. The Caruana,Cuntrera & Rizzuto clans have been operating there for decades.

In the early 2000s the sicilian mafia were introduced by Frank Cali to a drug trafficker in Miami, since then they pay 5000 euro for a kilo directly from Venezuela.

Interesting...... A Latino? Or Miami based Italian?

Would you happen to have his name, sounds like there's a story there.....

I can't remember where I read it, but I once read Venezuela had HUNDREDS of cocaine wholesalers......

Cabrini it was mentioned in federico varese's latest study book Mafia Life did't say where he was from i assume latino.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-...a-earthquake-diosdado-cabello-socialist/

Video: Venezuelan Leader Celebrates ‘Socialist’ Earthquake

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/venezuela-new-regional-crime-hub/

Venezuela, the New Regional Crime Hub

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/a...dy-solidify-countrys-mafia-state-status/

US Sanctions on Venezuela First Lady Solidify Country’s Mafia State Status

Cuban military is the force there.

https://www.vancourier.com/colombia...ler-was-a-drug-cartel-kingpin-1.23446193


Colombians say alleged Nova Scotia killer was a drug cartel kingpin

https://theconversation.com/venezue...state-heres-what-you-need-to-know-109887

Venezuela is fast becoming a ‘mafia state’: here’s what you need to know

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politic...e-western-hemisphere-venezuelan-attorney

Maduro regime is the biggest drug cartel in the Western Hemisphere: Venezuelan attorney

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-cocaine-aeroterror-hezbollah-iran-142154553.html

‘Mafia state’: How Venezuela became ‘worse than a narco state'

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/venezuela-intelligence-chief-organized-crime-maduro/

Venezuela Intelligence Chief Exposes Organized Crime Links in Maduro Govt

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/venezuela-tren-de-aragua-gang-colombia-border-area/

Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua Gang Muscling into Colombia Border Area

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eizes-4m-gold-bars-Heathrow-Airport.html

National Crime Agency seizes £4m of gold bars at Heathrow 'sent by south American drugs cartel from Cayman Islands on way to Switzerland'

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article230669164.html

How Miami, a major destination for Venezuelan gold, is helping prop up Maduro’s regime

https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/venezuela-mafia-state/

Venezuela: A Mafia State

Maduro’s boasting ‘narconephews’ helped nail him on drug traffic charge

https://nypost.com/2020/03/28/maduros-boasting-narconephews-helped-nail-him-on-drug-traffic-charge/

Do the Sicilians still have a stronghold in Venezuela? At one time the media made it seem like they were the most powerful people in the country.