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By Michael Moran & Michael Moran & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas A British woman arrested inVenezuela for smuggling cocaine has described life in a notorious “party prison” where inmates armed with shotguns acted as guards. Natalie Welsh said San Antonio prison, located on the Venezuelan island of Margarita, was “like a war zone” because of intense clashes between rival gangs. She told podcaster Dodge Woodall: “The Guardia [police] wouldn’t even come in sometimes. There was just so much shooting the Guardia the police would just let them get on with it.” The prison, which was run by the inmates, had …

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