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<\/div><\/div>Logo of Trio Gentlemen's club<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15102016-1.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\nIn \r\nOctober 2015, two confidential Mexican informants from the US Drug Enforcement \r\nAdministration (DEA), father (55 years old) and son (34 years old) arrived in \r\nCaracas posing as drug traffickers of the Sinaloa cartel. They acted as part of \r\nthe operation that would result months later in the arrest of the relatives of \r\nthe Venezuelan presidential couple. During that visit, they held four meetings \r\nin the capital of the country with Campos Flores and Flores de Freitas and \r\nvisited the Trio club. The party night and the girls were courtesy of the \r\nhosts.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
The \r\nDEA informant said at the evidentiary hearing of the case that the Flores \r\nnephews invited them to the Trio nightclub and, at the end of the night, they \r\nwere sent to a Marriot hotel, located a few minutes away, with 3 courtesy \r\nprostitutes. They were also provided with cars and bodyguards during their stay \r\nin Caracas. The Mexicans reported that Campos Flores claimed that the club had \r\nbeen his but that, even after selling it, he continued receiving exclusive \r\nservice.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
In \r\n2009, when Trio was inaugurated, the owners were Alfredo Lovera, a well-known \r\nbusinessman in the Caracas nightlife scene; Eduardo Capriles, a businessman and \r\nstepbrother of the businessman Armando Capriles; and a third party that is only \r\nknown as \"El Burro\", according to former brothel workers. On paper, the story is \r\ndifferent.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
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The \r\nplace is dark; just a few purple, yellow and blue lights illuminate the \r\natmosphere. A row of women in short dresses are sitting by the bar, too lightly \r\ndressed for the intensity of the air conditioner. In front of the girls there is \r\na stage with border lights; on the back, a spiral staircase with aluminum steps \r\nleading to the second floor. The tiles shine, the leather seats are organized in \r\na crescent shape and you feel the smell of Victoria's Secret splash. At \r\nmidnight, the first show is about to start. Only three tables have customers, \r\ndespite being a Saturday after pay week. Maybe it is due to the prices. Each \r\ndrink costs 9 thousand bolivars and the cheapest rum service goes up to 78 \r\nthousand, almost twice as much as in any other Caracas nightclub. Enjoying a \r\ncatwalk of perfectly depilated women with bodies, according to preferences, \r\nperfectly sculpted with silicone, is not for free.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
\"If \r\nyou are photogenic, come, I invite you to my catwalk oh ah, vain \r\ncat...,\"<\/I> \r\nis the background music while two girls make their appearance on the \r\nsemicircular platform in the middle of the club. Next to the stage, a flat \r\nscreen continues transmitting videos of semi-naked women and images that \r\ncelebrate the sixth anniversary of Trio. Both girls wear nothing but a bra and a \r\nskirt that little covers the buttocks that sometime received the filling shot. \r\nOne of them is blonde, the other brunette. They do not physically interact with \r\neach other but they share one or another look that guides them in their \r\nchoreography. During the reggaeton song, the buttocks of the brunette almost \r\nembrace the eight meter pole dance tube connected to the next floor. The blonde \r\nin the other tube raises so much that forces the attendees to tilt the head. \r\nOnce up, she let herself fall by the gravity that does not affect her operated \r\nbreasts.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
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<\/div><\/div>After the first show, new customers begin to appear behind the door and the girls, who until a while ago were yawning and moving their feet from side to side while keeping their legs crossed, seem ready to begin to seduce them. One of the girls stands out among all; straight jet-black hair that covers her back, angelic face, short black dress with sequins, lush breasts and a butt that has nothing to envy Kim Kardashian. They say his name is Ami, short for \"Amanda,\" from Latin amandus (person loved by everyone.\" This Saturday, she does justice to her name.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15102016-3.jpg\")
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<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\nBrothel of Nicknames<\/h2>\n\n\n
Trio \r\nGentlemen's Club is just a business name. It is a legal abstraction, transient, \r\nlike the moments that gentlemen, and some ladies, seek to enjoy in this place \r\ncreated to fulfill fantasies. Behind the liquor, music and sequins is \r\nCorporaci\u00f3n Kanata, C.A. It is the only name visible on the brothel\u2019s payment \r\nvouchers.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
The \r\ncompany was registered on November 6, 2008, by Bernardo Soto Negron and Anthony \r\nZambrano Ram\u00edrez with the business purpose of \"operation of nightclubs, social \r\nclubs, discotheques, breweries, restaurants, bars, taverns, halls for day and \r\nnight events and shows, buying and selling of alcoholic beverages, selling of \r\nfood and snacks.\" Soto and Zambrano did not last as long as the owners of the \r\ncompany. In late 2008, they stopped being shareholders and the company was in \r\ncharge of Belkis Hurtado Reyes and Mauricio Maduro Morales until \r\ntoday.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
As \r\nto the current owners of Trio, there is a smoke screen like the one used by the \r\nplace to give an air of mystery to the erotic dances of their girls. The \r\nnicknames, crime-specific language, also lead relationships in this Caracas \r\nnightclub. Local workers say they only know the owners by nicknames or simply \r\nthe first name. Surnames are not used. The most visible face of Trio is known as \r\n\"El Burro\" [Ass], a nickname not necessarily related to lack of intellectual \r\nqualities. \"I have no idea what his name is. But he is called \"El Burro\" because \r\nof the size of his member and because he has a reputation for sleeping with all \r\nthe women getting in there. Some party nights, they rented entire floors of the \r\nMarriot [hotel] for his enjoyment and that of his friends and several girls,\" \r\nsays Adrian*, a former worker of the club.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"We know them but it is a lie that they own the club\"<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n