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Organized crime syndicate, doing illicit drug traffic and money laundering
The available reporting indicates that U.S. federal officials have said , with amounts reported up to $50,000; those statements were made publicly by Department of Homeland Security and ICE officials ...
No credible reporting in the documents supplied supports the claim that the FBI “just arrested 12 federal judges” in a cartel bribery investigation; instead the materials describe other law‑enforcemen...
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...
and its analogues are produced through a transnational chain: precursor chemicals and some finished product originate in , large-scale clandestine manufacturing has shifted to where transnational crim...
No credible reporting in the provided sources shows that a sitting federal judge was arrested for belonging to a drug cartel; the only direct claim that a batch of “12 sitting judges” were arrested ap...
The viral claim that "Trump ordered the arrest of Barack Obama" and that Tulsi Gabbard "revealed charges" against Obama is ; multiple contemporaneous sources show no evidence of an arrest order or cha...
The short answer: mainstream expert estimates put the land area under meaningful cartel control or governance at roughly , but that figure depends on definitions and methodology; other claims range hi...
U.S. authorities and Treasury investigations show cartels use a mix of cash smuggling, front companies, casinos, real-estate purchases, prepaid cards and crypto conversions to move and “clean” drug pr...
There is no credible reporting in the documents provided that any sitting or former U.S. senator has been criminally charged or convicted for taking money from Venezuelan cartels; major reporting inst...
The available analyses do not establish that the United States government deliberately *aided* Mexican drug cartels; instead, official records and oversight reports describe U.S. efforts to combat car...
Since about 2015, fentanyl for the U.S. market shifted from being produced largely in Asia to being synthesized and pressed in Mexico, with Mexican cartels—primarily the Sinaloa Cartel (including Los ...
Chinese-made fentanyl precursors are primarily shipped abroad in small, concealable quantities that enable diverse transport routes — notably commercial container shipping to Mexico, international air...
Cartels target law enforcement through a mix of corruption, infiltration, violence, and financial operations designed to neutralize state actors and secure criminal logistics and profits. Recent repor...
Public records and the provided analyses show . Available official reports and news summaries instead describe arrests, seizures, and increased threats or assaults against immigration and border enfor...
Two dominant Mexican transnational criminal organizations— the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)—are identified in U.S. and academic reporting as the principal producers and ...
The U.S. government and several policy outlets have publicly tied Venezuelan state-linked networks — most notably the so-called "Cartel de los Soles" — and violent gangs such as Tren de Aragua to narc...
Allegations tying politicians or officials to drug cartels have been both proven and disproven in high-profile cases: U.S. prosecutors convicted Mexico’s former public security chief Genaro García Lun...
Mexican cartels function as the principal wholesale distributors and cross-border transporters that move South American cocaine toward U.S. markets, leveraging long-established logistics, alliances an...
Fentanyl consumed in the United States is largely produced from precursor chemicals sourced in China, transformed in clandestine Mexican labs, and then trafficked into U.S. communities via a mix of ov...
Claims that “Obama gave money to cartels” are not supported by the documents in the provided search results. Reporting and government actions in the Obama years show the administration pursued sanctio...