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Available U.S. and international reporting indicates that Venezuela is a transit country for some cocaine but accounts for only a small share of drugs directly entering the United States, with most U....
Most reporting and official U.S. assessments identify Mexico and Colombia as the primary countries through which the largest volumes of illegal drugs—especially fentanyl and cocaine—reach the United S...
U.S. government reports and multiple analyses estimate that roughly 200–250 metric tons of cocaine per year transited Venezuela around 2020 and in subsequent assessments — an amount the State Departme...
Venezuela is documented primarily as a transit route for cocaine rather than a large-scale producer of most illegal drugs; U.S. and other reports estimate significant cocaine transshipments through Ve...
Venezuelan-linked traffickers have been implicated in maritime flows across both the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, using coastal hubs like Sucre and Margarita Island and routes toward the Eastern Car...
Recent government and reporting data point to Colombia as the principal source of cocaine that reaches the United States: UN and Reuters reporting says Colombia was the source for most drugs crossing ...
Available sources do not provide a single, directly comparable "per capita knife homicide rate" for the United States in the same format as for Canada, England & Wales or the UK; however, Office for N...
Traffickers move cocaine and other drugs from Venezuela via a mix of maritime, island-hub, and overland networks that then link into Caribbean and Pacific corridors toward the United States and Europe...
Global measurements of child sexual exploitation vary by metric: reported Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) takedown notifications are highest in some EU countries and other high-reporting states (St...
Venezuela is widely described by analysts and governments as a transit state for cocaine rather than a primary producer of fentanyl, and U.S. policy in 2025 centered on lethal maritime strikes and thr...
Illicit drugs reaching U.S. consumers come largely from Latin America, with cocaine originating primarily in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia and synthetic opioids—most notably fentanyl—linked to production...
Available reporting does not give a single, authoritative percentage for “what share of cocaine seized in the US is traced to Venezuela in 2024–2025.” Major U.S. and international reports cited in the...
Knife-enabled homicides in England and Wales rose to 262 in the year ending March 2024, up 8% from the prior year, and they accounted for 46% of the 570 homicides in 2023/24 (ONS/Home Office reporting...
Estimates and reporting put the annual volume of cocaine transiting Venezuela in the rough range of 200–250 metric tons in recent years, a figure the U.S. State Department first cited for 2020 and tha...
Estimates of how many men have committed rape vary widely by study, definition and country: population surveys that ask about perpetration show some high figures (for example one notable South African...
Latest international datasets show a large numerical gap between reported rape rates for the United Kingdom and Poland, but that gap largely reflects differences in definitions, recording practices an...
Reports and commentators say Israel’s recorded rape rate is about 15.5 per 100,000, which some outlets describe as the highest in West Asia or the Middle East . Domestic advocacy groups and crisis cen...
Available reporting and government assessments show Venezuela is not a major source of the fentanyl that kills Americans; most illicit fentanyl reaching the U.S. is produced in or routed through Mexic...
Available reporting says U.S. forces have destroyed or struck a series of small vessels in the Caribbean since early September 2025, and that U.S. officials have identified multiple of those craft as ...
Different compilations of 2024-era data point to very different “highest” and “lowest” rape‑per‑capita rankings because national legal definitions, reporting practices and recent law changes make dire...