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Venezuelan authorities on Thursday showed off dozens of Bitcoin mining machines and heavy weapons such as rocket launchers and grenades seized in a prison recaptured from gang control.

Bitcoin mining machines and rocket launchers were among the astonishing contraband found in a Venezuelan prison recaptured from a gang that had turned it into a playground kitted out with a pool, a nightclub and a zoo.At a press conference outside the prison, authorities displayed buckets of bullets, heaps of machine gun ammunition belts and machines used to mine the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

Bitcoin mining machines and rocket launchers were among the astonishing contraband found in a Venezuelan prison recaptured from a gang that had turned it into a playground kitted out with a pool, a nightclub and a zoo.

An operation involving 11,000 members of Venezuela’s security forces took back control of the prison.

Venezuela said Wednesday it had seized control of a prison from the hands of a powerful gang with international reach, in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces.

Venezuela said Wednesday it had seized control of a prison from the hands of a powerful gang with international reach, in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces.She said Tocoron had been entirely in the hands of the gang.

Venezuela said Wednesday it had deployed more than 11,000 members of its security forces in an operation to crack down on gangs in one of the country's most violent prisons.

Five questions for Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez, who for more than 20 years has covered violence and organized crime in South America.

Extortion, prostitution, murder, drug trafficking, people smuggling: Venezuela's "Tren de Aragua" went from gang to multinational syndicate in a matter of years -- a rise that journalist Ronna Risquez…

By Iñaki Martinez Azpiroz and Sebastian Silva Santiago, Feb 1 (EFE).- Born in a Venezuelan prison, the criminal organization known as Tren de Aragua has extended its tentacles into Colombia, Chile, Peru and Bolivia and poses a threat to public safety throughout the region. The gang’s spread was facilitated by the mass exodus of people …