10.07.16: Calabozos

La Patilla recently visited inmates at the Miranda State Police (Polimiranda) jail in the city of Guarenas. The video includes an Continue reading →

10.05.16: Stray Dogs

In Venezuela, prisons are typically run by an inmate called the pran who controls many of the prison’s activities, including the import Continue reading →

08.05.16: PGV

Following threats of intervention by PSUV vice-president and National Assembly deputy Diosdado Cabello, authorities raided the Mercado Mayorista de Valencia [Valencia Wholesale Continue reading →

03.25.16: Pran

Criminologist Fermin Marmol Garcia told El Tiempo that according to statistics that he has compiled, 26 out of the country’s 38 Continue reading →

07.27.15: Hitman

UNASUR Secretary General Ernesto Samper stressed today the organization’s “determination” to help ensure that the December parliamentary elections be carried out Continue reading →

05.30.15: Airs of Change

Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets in cities across the country to protest the Maduro government in the largest Continue reading →

04.27.15: Catia

A mutiny at the National Bolivarian Police’s Centro de Cordinacion Policial headquarters in the Catia neighbourhood of Caracas left one detainee Continue reading →

November 27: OPEC

After OPEC leaders failed to agree to decrease output in order to slow down plummeting oil prices, Maduro assured the Continue reading →