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Caribbean routes remain active but heterogeneous: recent UNODC and reporting show Haiti, the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos corridor, the Lesser Antilles (including Dominica and the French Antilles), and Br...
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...
Chuck Schumer is reported to have voted in favor of the 1986 Anti‑Drug Abuse Act package that included the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement provisions and Coast Guard appropriations, but the public repor...
Using “go‑fast” boats to smuggle drugs or people triggers heavy national criminal penalties (prison, fines, forfeiture of vessels) and expanding extraterritorial enforcement at sea — notably under the...
's 1492 voyage did not "discover" an empty continent but did mark the beginning of sustained an contact with the Caribbean and ultimately the Americas; he landed in and , made four voyages for between...
Early slavery in Florida began under Spanish rule in the 16th century and evolved through cycles of sanctuary, commercial importation, and plantation entrenchment as control passed between Spain, Brit...
Colombian cocaine reaches the United States via multiple, overlapping corridors: maritime shipments across the Pacific and Caribbean, overland transits through Central America and Mexico, and smaller-...
Major Caribbean transshipment hubs for cocaine linked to Venezuela and broader South American flows include the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Aruba, Curaçao, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago — ea...
Pilot CBDCs have taken divergent approaches to privacy: China’s e‑CNY emphasizes “controllable/managed anonymity” with encrypted storage but traceability for larger or suspicious transfers , the Baham...
No country in the provided sources is described as having a fully voluntary tax system where citizens may choose whether to pay taxes; instead, reporting shows many jurisdictions either levy no person...
Courts and statutes award several types of damages for unlawful detention and related claims: economic damages (medical costs, lost wages/back pay), non‑economic damages (general or emotional distress...