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Sovereign state in South America
U.S. government reports and multiple analyses estimate that roughly 200–250 metric tons of cocaine per year transited Venezuela around 2020 and in subsequent assessments — an amount the State Departme...
A patchwork of criminal laws governs sex with animals (bestiality/zoophilia): many countries have enacted explicit bans, others rely on animal-cruelty or pornography statutes, and a few jurisdictions ...
Geological surveys and recent reporting locate most confirmed and reported coltan and rare earth occurrences in Venezuela’s southern Guayana/Orinoco region—especially Bolívar and adjoining Amazonas—la...
Socialism has shown measurable successes in varied forms and moments — primarily as social democracy and municipal socialism that blended markets with strong public welfare — but its record is mixed w...
Venezuela is documented primarily as a transit route for cocaine rather than a large-scale producer of most illegal drugs; U.S. and other reports estimate significant cocaine transshipments through Ve...
Available public sources do not give a single, authoritative tonnage for Venezuela’s lithium reserves; mainstream datasets list the largest South American lithium resources concentrated in the “Lithiu...
Recent government and reporting data point to Colombia as the principal source of cocaine that reaches the United States: UN and Reuters reporting says Colombia was the source for most drugs crossing ...
Illicit drugs reaching U.S. consumers come largely from Latin America, with cocaine originating primarily in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia and synthetic opioids—most notably fentanyl—linked to production...
Available reporting does not give a single, authoritative percentage for “what share of cocaine seized in the US is traced to Venezuela in 2024–2025.” Major U.S. and international reports cited in the...
Jeffrey Sachs’s international work has generated intense debate: critics charge that his rapid, top‑down economic prescriptions and high‑profile interventionist projects produced harmful dependence, s...
Since 2010 a wave of explicit statutory bans on sexual acts with animals — often framed as clarifying animal‑welfare law — have been enacted in multiple countries and U.S. states; the best documented,...
U.S. officials and reporting have repeatedly cited an estimate that roughly 200–250 metric tons (MT) of cocaine moved through Venezuela annually as of 2020; U.S. and DOJ materials have used that figur...
Venezuela functions mainly as a transit hub — not a primary producer — for cocaine bound for both Europe and the United States, with traffickers using aerial, maritime and island-hopping Caribbean cor...
Venezuela functions largely as a transit and secondary route for cocaine headed to the United States and other markets; U.S. estimates in 2020 put 200–250 metric tons of cocaine transiting Venezuela a...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
Reporting from 2024–2025 shows competing pictures: some monitors and Venezuelan authorities recorded large seizure figures (Transparencia Venezuela cited “more than 848 tons” seized in 2024) while ind...
U.S. authorities and partners have intercepted and seized tons of cocaine at sea in operations tied to routes that touch Venezuela, including individual cases of 1–2.4 metric tons from vessels linked ...
After World War II, multiple South American countries became destinations for Nazi officials fleeing prosecution; , with additional evidence that hosted fugitives through ratlines and supportive netwo...
Donald Trump’s presidency featured both public praise and conciliatory engagement with leaders widely described as authoritarian, alongside instances where other leaders criticized his policies and ap...
Several sources compiled in the prompt identify a set of states in 2025 whose ruling parties describe themselves as *socialist* or *communist*, but the lists diverge because —from formal constitutiona...