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Country Profile: Venezuela

The world’s leading promoters & the 70+ top markets they operate in.
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Venezuela is currently facing a severe socioeconomic and political crisis marked by hyperinflation, widespread hunger, and a mass emigration of its population.

Last December, The Hives broke ground by becoming the first international rock band to perform in the country for over a decade, playing at Caracas’s 6,000-capacity Concha Acústica de Bello Monte.

“Because of the sanctions, it became an unviable market,” Matthew Greer of ATC Management, told Variety last year. “Hopefully, The Hives can be part of the journey to reopen the country and have bigger artists go down there.”

“Because of the sanctions, it became an unviable market”

The performance was coordinated by AGTE Live, founded in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 2005. The leading promoter in this market, it also operates in the US and Europe, bringing artists like Cuban salsa singer Rey Ruiz to Madrid, Paris, and London this year. The promoter will also bring Colombian band Morat to the Estadio Olímpico (24,264) in the capital city of Caracas in November.

Spartans Producciones is a relatively new market entrant, launching last November with a show at Valencia’s Wynwood Park featuring Los Borjas, a reunion act comprised of Venezuelan cousins Ronald Borjas and Luis Fernando Borjas.

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