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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...
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...
The claim that Venezuela has been “invaded” and is controlled by Russian and Iranian agents, Hezbollah/Hamas, guerrillas, and cartels that control 60% of the population mixes documented foreign influe...
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...
Available reporting shows the U.S. government has repeatedly asserted that specific boats off Venezuela were involved in narcotics smuggling and has released video and public statements to justify str...
The Colombia–Venezuela border is a major enabler of cocaine transit and related illicit economies because of its length, geography and weak enforcement: U.S. and Venezuelan officials acknowledge the 2...
Three credible escalation pathways could draw Russia and NATO into direct confrontation by 2026: inadvertent or “fog-of-war” incidents near NATO borders, deliberate Russian provocations or cross-borde...
Traffickers moving Andean cocaine routinely use Venezuela as a transshipment hub; reporting and analysis point to northwestern Venezuelan ports (Zulia, Falcón, La Guaira) sending loads to nearby ABC i...
Pete Hegseth has publicly claimed he personally authorized at least one U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel off Venezuela and said he watched that operation live (Fox News) . He has also ...
Venezuelan territory functions largely as a transit and facilitation zone for cocaine produced in Colombia, with multiple actors—elements of the Venezuelan military and state (commonly called the “Car...
The unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictments accuse Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials of operating a state-sponsored drug-trafficking enterprise that partnered with violent transnational...
A patchwork of Venezuelan territory is contested and in some places effectively controlled by Colombian-origin armed groups and local criminal bandas: the ELN holds sway in large stretches of the Colo...
Over the last five years law-enforcement seizures and multiagency reporting show a complex picture: traffickers routed large volumes of cocaine through Venezuela toward the Caribbean, Europe and West ...
U.S. law-enforcement documents and public reporting tie senior Venezuelan officials to networks that allegedly protected, facilitated and profited from large-scale cocaine shipments, with the most det...
Rising and shifting Colombian coca production in the 2010s and 2020s reshaped regional smuggling geography by increasing pressure on border zones and feeding greater trafficker reliance on Venezuelan ...
Multiple investigative outlets, U.S. government agencies and multilateral bodies report links between Venezuelan state actors—particularly elements of the military and security services—and organized ...
U.S. officials say many struck Venezuelan-flagged boats were carrying narcotics on known trafficking routes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific; U.S. strikes have hit at least 17–22 vessels and kille...
The removal of Nicolás Maduro reduces one immediate threat vector — the continuation of an authoritarian regime long accused of corruption and facilitating illicit networks — but it simultaneously inc...
President Donald Trump ordered a dramatic U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and signaled that the United States would “run” Venezuela, a move framed by his team as...
The Justice Department’s superseding indictment alleges a multi-decade, state-enabled drug-trafficking enterprise in which senior Venezuelan officials protected, facilitated and profited from cocaine ...