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Available reporting shows Venezuela is primarily cited as a transit route for cocaine and other drugs, not as a major producer of fentanyl destined for the United States; U.S. and independent analysts...
Venezuela functions as a significant transit and facilitation hub for international cocaine trafficking, exploited by transnational criminal organizations and allegedly aided by corrupt state actors, ...
U.S. forces have conducted repeated lethal strikes on small boats alleged to be trafficking drugs from Venezuela; reporting shows at least 80–87 people killed in dozens of strikes and that the strikes...
Global measurements of child sexual exploitation vary by metric: reported Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) takedown notifications are highest in some EU countries and other high-reporting states (St...
Global data on average erect penis length cluster tightly around roughly 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in), with most country-level estimates falling within a medically “normal” range and only modest regional dif...
All people with "Black" identity do not exclusively originate from the modern continent labeled Africa today: the overwhelming majority of Black populations worldwide trace ancestry to Africa via anci...
The core claim across reporting is that elements of the Venezuelan state—particularly military officers—have enabled and in some cases directed large-scale cocaine trafficking, creating a de facto par...
Venezuela is a hub where foreign cartels, Colombian guerrillas, large local gangs (“megabandas”) and alleged networks of corrupt security officials intersect; reporting identifies cocaine as the princ...
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...
All human populations ultimately trace their deep ancestry to Africa, so , but the answer depends on definitions: genetic ancestry, recent genealogy, and social identity diverge. Historical migrations...
Reporting from 2024–2025 shows competing pictures: some monitors and Venezuelan authorities recorded large seizure figures (Transparencia Venezuela cited “more than 848 tons” seized in 2024) while ind...
Venezuelan islands and cays — including Margarita and the Los Roques archipelago — are documented transshipment nodes used to move Colombian cocaine onward to the Caribbean, Europe and the U.S., in pa...
Venezuela has been verified by U.S. and international reporting as an important transit and processing route for cocaine—largely because of its porous border with Colombia, weak institutions and repor...
Available U.S. estimates place the lifetime probability of being diagnosed with invasive cancer at roughly 39% for women and 40% for men (about 38.9%–41% overall depending on the source and method) . ...
No Kings Day in America does not have a single, universally agreed founding moment; historians point to at least two distinct strands that feed the idea: an 18th-century African American tradition kno...
Claims that people of African descent — often phrased as “Black tribes” or pre‑Columbian African visitors — were present in the Americas long before the trans‑Atlantic slave trade are a long‑running a...
Evidence from technical descriptions of Roman ships and navigation shows that crossing the Atlantic was not impossible in absolute terms—Roman vessels and seamanship handled open-water voyages in the ...
A consistent finding across recent analyses is that . Systematic reviews to mid-2025 place the Americas as the region with the largest mean stretched and flaccid lengths, while aggregated African esti...
Genetic studies show that uniparental markers (Y‑DNA and mtDNA) among peoples linked to the Levant and Europe display contrasting patterns: many Levantine male lineages carry haplogroups associated wi...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative tally of kilograms of cocaine seized specifically from vessels departing Venezuela in the past 12 months; reporting and datasets instead give s...