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There is substantial reporting linking Venezuelan officials and businessmen to multi‑million and billion‑dollar bribery and money‑laundering schemes — including a U.S. case that traced more than $1 bi...
Independent, peer‑reviewed geological surveys that quantify coltan/tantalum concentrations across Venezuela’s Orinoco Mining Arc are scarce; most published figures trace back to Venezuelan government ...
Available reporting and official records in the provided sources show no published evidence that Adam Schiff has received or sent financial transactions linked to the Venezuelan government or Venezuel...
The Venezuelan government publicly presents itself as an active anti-drug actor, developing a and promoting interagency civilian-military cooperation to tackle trafficking. At the same time Caracas ac...
Public, verifiable documentation tying the Venezuelan government to direct payments to named U.S. politicians or elected officials does not exist in the sources reviewed; the strongest public allegati...
In 2007 the Venezuelan government moved to take operational control of major foreign-run heavy‑oil projects in the Orinoco Belt, most notably seizing ExxonMobil’s Cerro Negro and La Ceiba projects and...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) subjected Smartmatic’s 2005 acquisition of Sequoia to interagency scrutiny after congressional and media concerns about Smartmatic’s Ve...
A search of the provided reporting turned up no verified evidence that any current U.S. senator accepted trips paid for by the Venezuelan government or state-owned companies since 2015; claims circula...
There is no explicit report among the supplied sources that names Senate campaign committees as having received donations directly tied to the Venezuelan government; the available materials point to s...
Turning Venezuelan raw minerals into secure, domestic inputs for U.S. defense manufacturing would require tens of billions in upstream investment, new U.S.-based processing and smelting capacity, and ...
Between 2006 and 2007 the Venezuelan government forced foreign-operated Orinoco Belt projects to convert into majority-state mixed companies (empresas mixtas) with PDVSA holding at least 60 percent, c...
Scholars reject the idea that the United States has blanket ownership of Venezuelan oil by pointing to core principles of international law—permanent sovereignty over natural resources, the illegality...
The materials provided contain no direct reporting or documented quotes describing any official Venezuelan government response to María Corina Machado’s dedication of a peace prize; multiple contempor...