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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....
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...
U.S. government reports and multiple analyses estimate that roughly 200–250 metric tons of cocaine per year transited Venezuela around 2020 and in subsequent assessments — an amount the State Departme...
Available reporting in the provided dataset does not identify a single location where a *majority* of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are currently situated; instead, the materia...
Claims that "China is smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. via Venezuela" have been publicly asserted by President Trump and repeated in several outlets (e.g., Trump said “They are doing that” regarding C...
Recent government and reporting data point to Colombia as the principal source of cocaine that reaches the United States: UN and Reuters reporting says Colombia was the source for most drugs crossing ...
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, ...
Available reporting and official assessments indicate Venezuela is not a major source of fentanyl entering the United States in 2025; U.S. agencies and multiple news analyses state either “no evidence...
Available reporting and government assessments show Venezuela is not a major source of the fentanyl that kills Americans; most illicit fentanyl reaching the U.S. is produced in or routed through Mexic...
U.S. officials and reporting have repeatedly cited an estimate that roughly 200–250 metric tons (MT) of cocaine moved through Venezuela annually as of 2020; U.S. and DOJ materials have used that figur...
The available reporting shows allegations that drug cartels have attempted to influence or donate to political campaigns, but public, verifiable proof tying cartels to direct donations to named Democr...
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...
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...
The available 2025 reporting establishes that newly hired ICE officers’ starting pay falls broadly in a band from the high-$40,000s up to roughly $89,500 depending on grade and locality; published fig...
U.S. authorities and partners have intercepted and seized tons of cocaine at sea in operations tied to routes that touch Venezuela, including individual cases of 1–2.4 metric tons from vessels linked ...
Multiple contemporaneous and later official and journalistic sources document airplane wreckage at the Pentagon: FBI photographs of interior wreckage, eyewitness accounts and photos of airplane parts,...
Governments and enforcement agencies identify multiple chemical precursors used to synthesize illicit fentanyl — commonly cited substances include N‑Phenethyl-4‑piperidone (NPP), 4‑ANPP (an immediate ...
Gas stations cannot automatically sell 7‑hydroxymitragynine (7‑OH) products in all states; the legal landscape is a patchwork of outright bans, state-level limits on 7‑OH content, age and product‑type...
Multiple investigations and eyewitness accounts have long alleged a CIA connection to the interrogation and torture of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, with Hector Berrellez’s work and the 2020 docu...
ICE’s 2025 recruitment campaign prominently featured signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and expanded loan-repayment incentives, an unusually large and highly visible package that accompanied a dramatic ...