Venezuelans are increasingly turning to a mystical cult that worships the spirits of dead Robin Hood-style gangsters as they seek supernatural protection from a crime wave that the police seem unable to contain.

Deep in the Venezuelan countryside, Unreported World joins thousands of pilgrims as they converge for a mass “spiritist” ceremony. But the crew discovers that adherents of Spiritism have turned gangster-ism into an act of veneration. Murder is so commonplace that infamous gangsters are invoked not as criminals, but saviours.

Friday 21 November 2008
7:35pm, Channel 4