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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...
Venezuelan-linked traffickers have been implicated in maritime flows across both the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, using coastal hubs like Sucre and Margarita Island and routes toward the Eastern Car...
Venezuelan-linked traffickers use maritime corridors from Venezuela’s Caribbean coast — including Sucre, Falcón and Margarita Island — to send cocaine to the Eastern Caribbean (islands such as Martini...
Drug flows from Venezuela use multiple maritime corridors: the Caribbean route from Venezuela’s northeastern coast (including Margarita Island and Sucre state) to the Eastern Caribbean and onward to E...
The deliberate destruction or abandonment of boats in the Caribbean produces a mix of immediate physical damage and longer-term chemical contamination that threatens , with impacts documented in both ...
The Caribbean Sea is overwhelmingly a transshipment corridor for cocaine, with multiple agencies and investigative outlets documenting large seizures and routing patterns that put a substantial share ...
Venezuelan-origin narco-boats typically operate as part of a maritime transit system that moves Colombian-produced cocaine toward the Eastern Caribbean islands and, via secondary legs, into Central Am...
U.S. and regional law‑enforcement actions since 2023 combined traditional interdictions — seizures, joint task forces, and cooperative operations that yielded multi‑ton drug busts — with a dramatic U....
Caribbean islands most frequently identified in recent reporting and government analyses as major transshipment hubs for cocaine linked to Venezuela and onward routes include the Dominican Republic, H...
Caribbean transshipment points for drugs originating in or moving through Venezuela include Venezuelan islands such as Margarita and the Los Roques archipelago, which have been repeatedly reported as ...