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There is no single, authoritative public list in the provided reporting that catalogues U.S. senators “receiving money from Venezuela.” Available sources document extensive U.S. legislative activity o...
Hugo Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro oversaw waves of state takeovers and tighter state control over oil and mining assets, notably asserting majority or full state stakes in Orinoco heavy-oil...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Donald J. Trump was arrested today; the news items instead document arrests of other figures and policy moves by the Trump adminis...
The short answer: there is no clear, sourced evidence that Venezuela “stole oil from the United States” as a matter of the U.S. government’s crude being taken; what President Trump and allies have des...
Available U.S. and international reporting indicates that Venezuela is a transit country for some cocaine but accounts for only a small share of drugs directly entering the United States, with most U....
President Trump publicly accused Venezuela of having “stolen” U.S. oil, land and other assets and ordered a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers; U.S. authorities have seized at lea...
Most reporting and official U.S. assessments identify Mexico and Colombia as the primary countries through which the largest volumes of illegal drugs—especially fentanyl and cocaine—reach the United S...
Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not identify any U.S. senators as “getting money back from Venezuela.” The documents instead show U.S. senators sponsoring legislation...
Recent reporting and specialist analyses show Venezuela is primarily implicated as a transit and facilitation hub for cocaine and, to a contested extent, as part of routes for other drugs — while alle...
Chuck Schumer did vote for a 1986 law, the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, that expanded U.S. authority over suspected drug-smuggling vessels — a vote sometimes summarized as permitting military fo...
Smartmatic has documented historical business links to Venezuela: it was founded by Venezuelan engineers, ran Venezuela’s 2004 referendum system, and for a time owned U.S. vendor Sequoia, prompting a ...
U.S. law‑enforcement agencies have publicly accused Nicolás Maduro of long‑running involvement with large‑scale cocaine trafficking and narco‑terrorism, including indictments and a U.S. reward offer n...
Yes — Venezuela has a documented history of seizing foreign oil assets that included U.S. companies, most notably during the Chávez-era nationalizations and subsequent expropriations in the 2000s, tho...
Available reporting and official U.S. documents through 2025 consistently state that Venezuela plays at most a minor role in the fentanyl trade; U.S. and independent analyses report “no proof” that fe...
Major international oil companies, most notably ConocoPhillips and others operating joint ventures in 2007, had large stakes in Venezuelan projects — including Petrozuata, Hamaca and Corocoro — that C...
Venezuela is publicly known for the world’s largest proven oil reserves and significant deposits of strategic minerals — including lithium, titanium, bauxite/aluminium feedstocks, gold and other metal...
Dominion Voting Systems is a North American company founded in Canada with headquarters in Toronto and Denver; multiple fact-checks and reporting state it has no ties to Venezuela and did not originat...
Congress has moved aggressively to constrain any unilateral U.S. military seizure of Greenland, but its votes are mixed: lawmakers introduced multiple bills and resolutions expressly to bar force or r...
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
Hugo Chávez’s mid-2000s reassertion of state control over Venezuela’s oil sector and Nicolás Maduro’s continuation of that policy led to the effective loss or forced reduction of foreign companies’ op...