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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...
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...
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...
Go‑fast boats are small, high‑speed powerboats used by smugglers to outrun law enforcement and ferry relatively large loads (often one to two tonnes) of cocaine across open water; they trace their des...
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 ...
Drug traffickers use the Caribbean and Central American coastlines as transit and transshipment zones—exploiting long, sparsely patrolled coastlines, many small islands, and weak state capacity—to mov...
Most reporting and government analyses say cocaine from South America reaches the United States through a handful of maritime corridors: the eastern Pacific corridor up the Pacific coast through Centr...
Venezuelan criminal groups transport cocaine to the Caribbean and onward to Europe using a mix of maritime methods——exploiting weak controls, corruption, and regional low interdiction capacity; multip...
Reporting so far gives conflicting and sparse public detail about what drugs — if any — were aboard the Venezuelan-linked boats the U.S. has struck. The administration has sometimes said vessels were ...
Repealing or modifying the Jones Act would almost certainly lower shipping costs to Puerto Rico and deliver measurable consumer and business relief, but the scale and distribution of those gains—and t...
The Madrid Charter is a 2020 manifesto produced by the Disenso Foundation linked to Spain’s Vox party that frames a transatlantic struggle against what it calls a resurgent “communist” threat in Ibero...
Brazil is identified by a recent comparative report as Latin America’s best-performing country on laws and policies to prevent and respond to child sexual exploitation and abuse, while Argentina score...
Illegal online pharmacies are widespread: regulators and watchdogs say roughly 90–95% of websites offering prescription drugs operate outside legal standards, and federal agencies warn many sites sell...
Caribbean islands and territories most frequently identified as transshipment hubs include the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Leeward eastern islands like Aruba and Curaçao, and parts of ...
Caribbean routes and ports tied to Venezuela — notably Margarita Island and waters off Venezuela — have been the focal point of recent U.S. military counternarcotics activity, with U.S. strikes in the...
Available reporting shows a specific claim about New York City: 41% of rent-regulated renters are immigrants, while 43% were born in New York City — a figure cited by the Community Service Society’s t...
Foreign occupations across Latin America—from covert CIA‑backed coups in Guatemala to overt U.S. military operations in Panama and repeated early‑20th‑century occupations of Caribbean states—offer a c...
The available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative metric for "how much cocaine came to [the] US from the Dominican Republic" but offers consistent evidence that the Dominican Republic i...
Naturalization activity in the United States has risen in absolute terms since 2015—annual naturalizations climbed into the 800,000s by FY2024—while the share of eligible immigrants who actually natur...
In fiscal year (FY) 2024, the largest shares of naturalized U.S. citizens came from Mexico, India, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, and Vietnam — together representing roughly one-third of all...