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How did illicit economies become this powerful in Venezuela? According to Transparency, there is nowadays a “symbiotic relationship”, between criminal actors and state institutions as the interdependence between organized crime and the political and economic system has made borders “tenuous” and a sort “political-bureaucratic-economic-criminal corporation” crystallizes. “The state is silent, the state cooperates, or the state facilitates”, says Mercedes de Freitas, Transparencia Venezuela’s executive director. By Tony Frangie Mawad. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles
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