Horses jump into the Apure River during a weekend of traditional horse races across the waterway in San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela. Ariana Cubillos / AP. Follow @msnbc_pictures.

Venezuela has reported more than 10,000 coronavirus cases and 96 deaths. But with limited testing and the authoritarian government in control of the data, both are widely believed to be undercounts.

Venezuela’s Apure state is a hive of various armed groups and narco-traffickers, including a faction loyal to Luciano Marín, a senior leader of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...