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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. law enforcement and multiple U.S. agencies have formally accused Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials of directing large-scale drug trafficking and narco‑terrorism, and the U.S. has offere...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
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 ...
U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments in 2020s charging Nicolás Maduro and 14 current and former Venezuelan officials with running a narco‑terrorism network tied to FARC-produced cocaine and alleging ...
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...
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...
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...
The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed superseding indictments charging Nicolás Maduro and multiple current and former Venezuelan officials with narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine and ...
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 Department of Justice’s Maduro indictments allege a high‑level narco‑terrorism conspiracy: prosecutors say Maduro and close officials conspired with Colombian guerrillas and traffickers to export ...
The assembled evidence includes formal U.S. criminal indictments unsealed in March 2020 charging President Nicolás Maduro and 14 current or former Venezuelan officials with , alleging a long‑running p...
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...
The U.S. Department of Justice indictments allege Nicolás Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials conspired with drug traffickers and the FARC to negotiate multi‑ton cocaine shipments, provide weapons ...
U.S. prosecutors have filed superseding indictments and public statements that allege Nicolás Maduro and associates ran a decades‑long narco‑terrorism partnership that sheltered, protected and facilit...
The United States has long alleged that Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials led a transnational criminal enterprise responsible for large-scale drug trafficking, narco‑terrorism, money‑launder...
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...
Publicly available U.S. court filings that feature Hugo Carvajal’s allegations center on his criminal case—his plea allocution and related court papers in the Southern District of New York—which docum...
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...