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Sovereign state in Central America
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...
Official and investigative reporting indicates that 2025 was the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in roughly two decades, with mainstream outlets and...
Historical claims that the CIA was involved with drug cartels in Latin America are supported in part by documented instances of U.S. agencies’ contacts with groups that trafficked drugs, but comprehen...
Claims that “President Joe Biden shipped in immigrants” refer to a mix of official parole programs that allowed people to fly directly to U.S. airports under eligibility rules and partisan accusations...
Claims that foreign governments “emptied out” prisons and shipped inmates into the United States are not supported by independent reporting or public evidence as a broad, systematic practice; fact‑che...
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...
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...
San Salvador (and El Salvador broadly) has seen a dramatic fall in homicides since 2015 — official figures and analysts place national homicide rates at about 1.9 per 100,000 in 2024 and even lower by...
Democratic socialism is criticized on several fronts: opponents warn it can stifle economic incentives and efficiency, risk expanding state control or fiscal burdens, and faces questions about whether...
Reporting and declassified documents show a web of contacts between Contra-linked figures and known drug traffickers in the 1980s, and journalist Gary Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series argued those l...
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...
The available reporting does not produce a single, uncontested tally of how many *legal* immigrants were deported during President Trump’s term; sources present that conflate removals, self‑deportatio...
The Trump administration’s ultimate goal for Venezuela, as shown in reporting, is a composite: to remove or neutralize Nicolás Maduro’s regime, to justify and expand a military campaign framed as a “w...
Reporting beginning with Gary Webb’s 1996 San Jose Mercury News series alleges that CIA-linked Contra networks helped funnel cheap cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and Compton, accelerating the ...
The available materials do not provide a single, direct estimate of , but they offer two anchoring figures that produce a plausible range: a January 2025 estimate of total undocumented immigrants, and...
There is no evidence that “most” of the roughly 2.4 million people counted in several headline metrics as entering or being encountered under the Biden administration came from jails, mental instituti...
Since 2018 international responses to Venezuelan elections have split along geopolitical and regional lines: many Western governments and regional blocs rejected the Maduro-administered votes as neith...
Recent court rulings and administration actions in 2024–2025 have substantially expanded the government’s tools to remove noncitizens by: allowing termination of certain temporary legal statuses that ...
Cold War covert operations that tied U.S. intelligence activity to narcotics trafficking fall into recurring patterns: alliances with anti‑communist proxies who were themselves involved in drug trade,...
Available sources do not specifically define an “Operation Liberty Lane” on the dark web; the closest match is a line in one Wikipedia summary listing “Operation Liberty Lane” among several named proj...