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Most pirates in this era were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish, and French origin. Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and of reprieve. London in particular was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which drove people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches. [citation needed]
Tren de Aragua's branch in Chile is known as "the Pirates of Aragua". [8] Amidst the Tarapacá migrant crisis in northern Chile, Tren de Aragua engaged in trafficking of women across from the Bolivian border to Santiago.
Pirates did not tend to stay pirates permanently. It seems to have been relatively easy both to join and leave a pirate band, and these raiding groups were more interested in maintaining a willing force. [71] Members of these pirate groups did not tend to stay longer than a few months or years at a time. [71]
Although the burning of Panama City did not mean any great financial gain for Morgan, it was a deep blow to Spanish power and pride in the Caribbean and Morgan became the hero of the hour in England. At the height of his career, Morgan had been made a titled nobleman by the English Crown and lived on an enormous sugar plantation in Jamaica , as ...
Pirates were unauthorized by the state and did not avoid targeting the ships and settlements of their own nations of origin. [ 6 ] : 176–177 The act of piracy was "massively" criminal. [ 7 ] : 204 Laws against piracy were often very strict, with charges and punishments escalating in attempts to curb piratical actions.
A handful of “OG” YouTubers — the original batch of stars from the platform’s early days — fulfilled fans’ dreams this year by coming back or rebooting old favorite series.
One woman was moving as slow as a tortoise when she was caught red-handed trying to smuggle 29 protected turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was nabbed loading up ...
Many fishermen who previously worked in Venezuela's once successful fishing industry turned to piracy. [6] Pirates would steal, smuggle drugs and traffic humans. [6] [3] The trend has direct echoes of the Somali piracy crisis, where impoverished fishermen likewise turned to hijacking passing vessels after the country's collapse into lawlessness in the 1990s.