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President Trump announced and then carried out a pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in 2024 by a U.S. court on drug‑trafficking and weapons charges and sente...
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...
Cartels and networks move drugs and people from South America through Central America primarily via maritime routes (Pacific, Caribbean/Atlantic) and land “pipelines” across the isthmus, using ports, ...
U.S. reporting and government releases show cartels currently move methamphetamine and fentanyl into the United States using a wide mix of routes — ports of entry (passenger vehicles, commercial cargo...
Precursor chemicals sourced from China feed large-scale synthetic drug production in Mexican clandestine labs by supplying the raw inputs, pill presses and industrial shipments that cartels convert in...
Illicit fentanyl is synthesized from a small set of specialized piperidone and piperidine precursor chemicals (examples repeatedly cited include N‑phenethyl‑4‑piperidone (NPP), 4‑anilino‑N‑phenethylpi...
Since 2020 cartel smuggling corridors have shifted toward the western border (Arizona and California) for fentanyl and toward remote desert routes in Arizona and New Mexico for migrant and mixed smugg...
U.S. authorities say Mexican banks and other intermediaries have moved “millions of dollars” for cartels and facilitated payments for precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl; FinCEN identified three...
U.S. authorities say Mexican banks — specifically CIBanco, Intercam and Vector Casa de Bolsa — have been used to launder “millions of dollars” for Mexican cartels and to process payments tied to fenta...
supply precursor chemicals to Mexican and n cartels through a mixture of direct sales, intermediaries and brokers, and permissive commercial and financial networks that move both goods and money acros...
Since 2020 Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) have moved from importing finished fentanyl from abroad toward building a resilient, vertically integrated supply chain: buying precursor...
There is substantial official evidence that Venezuelan territory and corrupt Venezuelan officials have been used to move large quantities of cocaine and to facilitate partnerships with transnational t...
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 ...
Snohomish County drug enforcement and multi‑agency federal indictments show repeated seizures of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and large quantities of fentanyl tied to trafficking networks that U.S...
Mexican cartels act as the primary northbound integrators for cocaine and other drugs produced in South America, receiving maritime shipments from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador or coordinating Caribbean ...
Across the newly unsealed U.S. indictment and contemporaneous reporting, a consistent pattern emerges in which prosecutors portray Nicolás Maduro as the linchpin of a decades‑long, state‑enabled narco...
Mexican cartels obtain fentanyl for U.S. markets by buying precursor chemicals and “pre‑precursors” largely from overseas chemical suppliers, particularly in China (and increasingly India), routing th...
The clearest, documented legal actions linking U.S. institutions and Venezuelan criminal networks are U.S. Department of Justice indictments charging Venezuelan leaders and their alleged criminal affi...
The DEA attributes the bulk of illicit fentanyl production affecting the United States to clandestine laboratories in Mexico, supplied with precursor chemicals originating primarily in China and incre...
U.S. and EU sanctions have responded to alleged narcotics and human‑trafficking ties to Nicolás Maduro’s government by combining individual criminal and financial designations, sectoral restrictions (...