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Subregion of the Americas
Traffickers move cocaine and other drugs from Venezuela via a mix of maritime, island-hub, and overland networks that then link into Caribbean and Pacific corridors toward the United States and Europe...
The allegation that the CIA “brought drugs and guns to Black communities” condenses a complex historical dispute: investigative reporting and declassified documents show , but multiple official inquir...
President Obama’s administrations oversaw the largest tally of formal removals in recent history, with reporting indicating , a figure that, by raw counts, exceeds recorded removals under Presidents C...
The core claim — that a specific percentage of undocumented immigrants in the United States are white — cannot be confirmed from the sources supplied: none of the referenced pieces provides a direct, ...
Venezuela functions as a significant transit and facilitation hub for international cocaine trafficking, exploited by transnational criminal organizations and allegedly aided by corrupt state actors, ...
The preponderance of reporting across the supplied sources indicates that the . Recent investigative reporting and official accounts also document a parallel into Central America (notably Belize), and...
Available reporting does not mention any payment or donation from Donald Trump to “venessaila” (term unclear) and does not report Trump giving money to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro; instead, U.S. ...
Drug traffickers move cocaine and other narcotics from South America toward Central America, Mexico, Europe and the U.S. using a mix of small fast “go‑fast” boats, disguised fishing and merchant vesse...
The sanctuary movement in the United States traces back to the 1980s when faith communities and a small set of municipalities began shielding Central American refugees and asserting city-level limits ...
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...
The core claim across reporting is that elements of the Venezuelan state—particularly military officers—have enabled and in some cases directed large-scale cocaine trafficking, creating a de facto par...
The most consistently reported drug moved by vessels linked to Venezuela is , often in large maritime shipments; marijuana is also documented historically, while claims that Venezuelan boats routinely...
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...
Available sources show sizable variation in estimates of the US unauthorized/undocumented population and emphasize changing origins and diversity rather than a single “racial breakdown.” Pew, MPI, Mig...
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...
The Trump administrations (2017–2021 and elements cited from 2025 materials in the provided sources) advanced a clear conservative policy agenda that their supporters point to as accomplishments: larg...
The available sources do not provide a single, definitive count of “how many drug interdictions the U.S. Coast Guard conducted in 2024.” Public documents and reporting give quantity metrics in multipl...
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...
The simple claim that “America was once owned by England and Spain” is misleading: of what is now the Americas were claimed, colonized, and governed at various times by Spain and by England (later Gre...