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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...
Allegations that a list of U.S. senators took money from “Venezuelan cartels” do not appear in the provided reporting; available sources instead document U.S. government actions that label Venezuela-l...
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...
The U.S. government has publicly declared it will treat the Cartel de los Soles — which Washington says is “headed by Nicolás Maduro” — with terrorist-designation tools that let it freeze assets and c...
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...
U.S. authorities have repeatedly accused Nicolás Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials of running or enabling large-scale drug trafficking—charging Maduro with “narco‑terrorism,” placing bounties up ...
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...
Available reporting shows the U.S. has conducted repeated strikes on small vessels it says departed Venezuela and carried narcotics; at least ~60 people have been killed in those strikes, while U.S. o...
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...
The United States has criminal indictments and reward offers against Nicolás Maduro and several top Venezuelan officials—U.S. charges include narcotics and related offenses and the State Department ha...
The United States has both indicted and sanctioned multiple high‑level Venezuelan officials on drug‑related charges: the Justice Department unsealed indictments charging Nicolás Maduro and 14 current ...
U.S. prosecutors and federal investigators have pursued multiple Venezuela-related money-laundering, corruption and narco-terrorism prosecutions that have touched high-level Venezuelan officials and i...
Allegations and investigations across U.S. agencies, international press and long-form reporting say members of Venezuela’s state apparatus — especially military officers and some senior officials — h...
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...
The United States has multiple high-level Venezuelan officials, including an indictment announced in 2020 that named President Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 others on narco-terrorism and drug traffickin...
U.S. strikes on small vessels that Washington says were tied to Venezuelan drug networks began in early September 2025 and have been reported in the Caribbean Sea and, more recently, the eastern Pacif...
Venezuela remains under Nicolás Maduro’s control after a contested July 2024 vote and his third-term inauguration on January 10, 2025; independent tallies showed the opposition’s Edmundo González Urru...
U.S. sanctions since 2024–2025 have escalated from targeted financial measures to terrorism designations that block U.S. assets and authorize secondary pressure on foreign banks, while the EU and othe...
The Trump administration’s public rationale for pressuring Venezuela centers on counter‑drug operations and stopping fentanyl and cocaine flows—citing strikes on suspected drug boats and designations ...
The U.S. government and several policy outlets have publicly tied Venezuelan state-linked networks — most notably the so-called "Cartel de los Soles" — and violent gangs such as Tren de Aragua to narc...