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Available U.S. and international reporting indicates that Venezuela is a transit country for some cocaine but accounts for only a small share of drugs directly entering the United States, with most U....
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...
Recent reporting and specialist analyses show Venezuela is primarily implicated as a transit and facilitation hub for cocaine and, to a contested extent, as part of routes for other drugs — while alle...
Available reporting shows Venezuela is primarily cited as a transit route for cocaine and other drugs, not as a major producer of fentanyl destined for the United States; U.S. and independent analysts...
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...
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...
The reporting on Nick Fuentes’ parents converges on two consistent points: several independent pieces identify his parents as , and available accounts do not supply firm, long‑term professional titles...
Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not list a comprehensive, up‑to‑date roster of current U.S. senators who hold dual citizenship; several outlets note that the federal ...
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...
U.S. officials have repeatedly asserted that struck Venezuelan boats were carrying narcotics, and the White House and Pentagon say intelligence confirmed drugs aboard some vessels . Independent report...
Venezuelan-linked smugglers use fast, open-hulled fishing skiffs—commonly called go-fast boats—to ferry cocaine and other contraband to nearby Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and hops across the Ea...
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 ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
President Trump’s claimed authority to destroy alleged drug boats in international waters is legally contested: several analyses say the strikes risk violating international law and may amount to unla...
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, ...
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...
Available reporting shows the U.S. deportation picture is complex: federal agencies publish country-by-country removals and returns, and independent trackers report both hundreds of thousands of remov...
The available reporting presents tying the Venezuelan-crewed boats to drug trafficking: local interviews in Venezuela describe the deceased as low-level boat crews paid small sums to run drugs, while ...
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...