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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...
Recent reporting and specialist analyses show Venezuela is primarily implicated as a transit and facilitation hub for cocaine and, to a contested extent, as part of routes for other drugs — while alle...
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...
Available reporting and official U.S. documents through 2025 consistently state that Venezuela plays at most a minor role in the fentanyl trade; U.S. and independent analyses report “no proof” that fe...
News reports allege the Trump administration sent "tens of millions" of dollars — often cited as $45 million — in cash to Afghanistan that critics say reached the Taliban through Afghanistan’s banking...
Multiple international observers, governments and NGOs say there is substantial evidence that Venezuela’s July 28, 2024, presidential vote was manipulated: the Carter Center concluded the process “did...
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...
Allegations that a list of U.S. senators took money from “Venezuelan cartels” do not appear in the provided reporting; available sources instead document U.S. government actions that label Venezuela-l...
Available reporting and government analyses indicate there is no evidence that a meaningful or measurable quantity of illicit fentanyl is being manufactured in or trafficked from Venezuela to the Unit...
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 Senate has moved to legally bar U.S. military and diplomatic funds from being used to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of any NATO member — legislat...
The U.S. government has publicly declared it will treat the Cartel de los Soles — which Washington says is “headed by Nicolás Maduro” — with terrorist-designation tools that let it freeze assets and c...
Claims that "China is smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. via Venezuela" have been publicly asserted by President Trump and repeated in several outlets (e.g., Trump said “They are doing that” regarding C...
The United States has committed roughly $174–175 billion in direct financial and security-related assistance to Ukraine through early 2025, of which about $66–69.7 billion is documented as U.S. milita...
ICE does not publish a simple, public rule saying that state-issued driver’s licenses or non‑passport state IDs are proof of U.S. citizenship; federal guidance and reporting indicate driver’s licenses...
Claims that President Barack Obama “sent” or “resettled” massive numbers of immigrants — especially 70,000 Somalis to Minnesota or 80,000 Muslims to Michigan — are false according to multiple fact‑che...
Publicly available U.S. government assessments and independent reporting show no proof that Venezuela is a major manufacturer or primary source of the fentanyl killing people in the United States; U.S...
Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and took steps in 1968–69 to avoid induction that critics called "draft dodging," but reporters and government reviews since the 1990s have concluded he did not c...
No single individual “brought” Somali immigrants to the U.S. in 2025; arrivals have resulted from U.S. refugee, asylum and humanitarian programs and longer-term migration patterns shaped by conflict a...