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State of Mexico
The narrative of drug bust that involved underground tunnels, large quantities of drugs and 96 arrests is not supported by the reporting provided: the only subterranean narcotics tunnel described in t...
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, ...
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...
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...
The generally runs from chemical suppliers and brokers in — who supply finished fentanyl and, increasingly after 2019, precursor chemicals — to Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) that...
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...
Most authoritative reporting and U.S. agencies describe a supply chain that has shifted: is now widely identified as the primary production and transit point for , while remains the dominant global so...
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...
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...
Reporting and declassified- or investigative-source accounts show allegations that Mexican cartel money has been linked to political campaigns — most prominently claims about alleged donations to Andr...
The available reporting does not identify a single cartel as the clear “greatest threat” to ICE agents; instead, reporting points to the being linked to at least one individual of concern while broade...
is not uniformly dangerous: violent crime, cartel activity, and kidnappings are real and have led foreign governments to issue , yet most tourists visit without encountering violence because risk is h...
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...