Index/Locations/Guyana

Guyana

Country in South America

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Dec 5, 2025
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Which country is the largest source of cocaine entering the United States?

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 ...

Nov 4, 2025
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Which countries currently have socialist or Marxist-Leninist governments in 2025?

As of 2025, five states continue to operate under that their governments describe with communist or socialist terminology: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. Other countries contain constitu...

Dec 17, 2025
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land Venezuala allegedly stole from the United States

The claim that "Venezuela stole land from the United States" does not track with the historical record: the major territorial issue connected to Venezuela concerns the Essequibo/Guiana dispute with Br...

Nov 4, 2025

Current socialist governments

Current lists of “socialist” or “communist” countries mix constitutional language, ruling-party ideology, and economic practice, producing inconsistent inventories. The primary claims in provided anal...

Dec 4, 2025

What are the primary cocaine routes from Venezuela to Europe and the US?

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...

Nov 7, 2025

Is Russia involved with conflict in Venezuela over oil in Essequibo

The available analyses present a contested picture: some reporting documents a deepening Russia–Venezuela strategic partnership that increases Moscow’s in Venezuela, while other pieces find of Russian...

Nov 5, 2025

Which countries have ruling parties that describe themselves as socialist in 2025?

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...

Dec 11, 2025

Venezuela annexing guyana

Venezuela has taken a series of political and legal steps since late 2023 asserting a claim over Guyana’s oil‑rich Essequibo region—holding a December 2023 referendum that Caracas says approved creati...

Dec 11, 2025

What is the current status of the Venezuela-Guyana Essequibo territorial dispute as of December 2025?

As of December 2025 the dispute remains live and tense: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has jurisdiction and issued provisional measures in 2023 ordering Venezuela not to change the status qu...

Dec 3, 2025

Which Caribbean ports see the highest volumes of cocaine transshipments from Venezuela to the US?

Available reporting and official analyses show that the main cocaine flows to North America originate in the Andean states (Colombia, Peru, Bolivia) and are not primarily routed through Venezuelan Car...

Dec 15, 2025

Which countries decriminalized suicide since 2000 and what drove those changes?

Since 2000 a wave of decriminalisation has reached multiple regions: India formally decriminalised attempted suicide in 2017 (via reforms to its penal code) and Singapore, Guyana, Pakistan, Malaysia a...

Dec 11, 2025

How do international maritime laws and flag-state responsibilities affect prosecution of seized tanker cases?

International maritime law gives flag states primary jurisdiction over vessels at sea and protects freedom of navigation, but real-world enforcement of sanctions and seizures is shaped by politics, ev...

Dec 1, 2025

What was the original conviction, sentence, and evidence in the 400-ton cocaine trafficking case?

Available reporting does not identify a single “400‑ton cocaine trafficking case.” Major recent law‑enforcement releases describe multi‑ton seizures (for example, 2.37 tonnes from a semi‑submersible a...

Nov 26, 2025

How have Colombian and Venezuelan drug routes changed since Maduro took power?

Since Nicolás Maduro’s rule (post-2013 and prominent through 2025) reporting and analysis say Venezuelan territory and officials increasingly figure in U.S. allegations about drug transit and state-li...

Dec 15, 2025

false flag

False-flag operations are real tactics where actors disguise the true source of an attack to pin blame on others; historical examples include Nazi Germany’s staged Gleiwitz incident in 1939 and docume...

Dec 14, 2025

How has increased Venezuelan involvement in the drug trade impacted drug flows to Mexico, the U.S., and Europe since 2015?

Since 2015, Venezuela has re-emerged as a pivotal transit hub for cocaine bound largely for Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States; U.S. and international reporting ties increased Venezuela...

Dec 3, 2025

What routes and methods do smugglers use to move cocaine from Venezuela through the Caribbean?

Smugglers moving cocaine out of Venezuela use a mix of maritime (go-fast boats, cargo containers, bulk shipments), small aircraft and clandestine airstrips, and overland corridors tied to the Colombia...

Dec 3, 2025

Which Caribbean islands are most frequently used as transshipment hubs by drug cartels?

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 ...

Nov 7, 2025

Are we going to war with venezuela over oil in essequibo

The short answer is: ; the dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region remains a high-tension territorial conflict being managed by diplomacy, legal channels, and international posturing rather than fu...

Jan 12, 2026

What historical claims does Venezuela cite to justify annexing Guyana?

Venezuela bases its claim to much of Guyana—principally the Essequibo region—on a mix of colonial-era boundary interpretations, rejection of the 1899 Paris Arbitral Award as illegitimate, and a narrat...