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Most reporting and official U.S. assessments identify Mexico and Colombia as the primary countries through which the largest volumes of illegal drugs—especially fentanyl and cocaine—reach the United S...
Venezuelan-linked traffickers have been implicated in maritime flows across both the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, using coastal hubs like Sucre and Margarita Island and routes toward the Eastern Car...
U.S. authorities say the vessels struck off Venezuela were drug-smuggling boats; independent reporting and regional officials say many of the destroyed craft were small open-hulled fishing skiffs and ...
Venezuela is widely described by analysts and governments as a transit state for cocaine rather than a primary producer of fentanyl, and U.S. policy in 2025 centered on lethal maritime strikes and thr...
Available reporting does not list a catalog of specific “unlawful orders” that President Trump has given; instead recent coverage centers on Democrats warning troops to refuse unspecified illegal orde...
There is no contemporaneous reporting in the provided sources showing President Joe Biden agreeing to the U.S. military campaign that has been “blowing up” suspected drug-smuggling boats in 2025; the ...
The line "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just going to ..." is reported as a verbatim remark attributed to during October 2025 remarks about strikes ...
Public reporting does not offer a single, authoritative count of all drone strikes conducted during President Trump’s administration; available sources cite partial tallies for specific theaters—e.g.,...
President Trump made the claim that “drugs brought in by ocean and by sea are now down 94%” while describing a campaign of maritime strikes and other counter‑drug steps; the figure appears to originat...
Maritime drug trafficking to the United States commonly uses two broad corridors: the Caribbean Sea (from northern South America including Venezuela and Colombia toward the Caribbean and U.S. Southeas...
Go‑fast boats combine very high speed, lightweight, and sleek hull designs that let smugglers outrun or evade interceptors and carry large payloads relative to fuel use; U.S. enforcement reports and n...
The United States has carried out multiple air and naval strikes on small vessels off South America this year, killing dozens — reporting at least 83 deaths across 21 strikes as of mid-November 2025 ....
The U.S. Coast Guard reports a historic cocaine haul in fiscal year 2025: nearly 510,000 pounds (about 231,000 kilograms) seized across the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean, driven in part by Operation P...
Allegations that “Democrats facilitate drug smuggling” are not supported in the provided reporting; major coverage instead describes bipartisan concern about lethal U.S. strikes on vessels alleged to ...
International law prohibits deliberate attacks on civilian ships unless they have become lawful military targets; key legal regimes cited by experts include International Humanitarian Law (distinction...
Drug flows from Colombia through Venezuela into the Caribbean and toward Florida are primarily part of multi-stop, shifting maritime and air networks rather than simple direct runs, with most cocaine ...
Central American countries function as key transit corridors — both maritime and overland — funneling cocaine and other drugs northward from Andean producers through Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic ro...
Video and reporting show the U.S. military struck small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific in September–December 2025 after labeling some targets as drug-smuggling vessels; those strikes have ...
U.S. forces have used lethal force against vessels the government said were smuggling drugs in a sustained campaign that began in early September 2025 and expanded into both the Caribbean and Eastern ...
Drug cartels exploit the Caribbean’s geography, governance gaps, and commercial transport networks to move narcotics toward the United States, using a mix of small “go-fast” boats, commercial shipping...