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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...
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...
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. sanctions have materially worsened Venezuela’s economic contraction and constrained imports of food, medicine and spare parts, but they did not originate the country’s crisis—years of mismanageme...
The most recent official counts show the U.S. has about and border barriers in place along the U.S.–Mexico border as of the start of 2025, and the Department of Homeland Security awarded to add roughl...
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...
As of available reporting, Customs and Border Protection’s “Smart Wall” program documents completed and under‑construction barrier mileage and says roughly 702 miles of primary and 76 miles of seconda...
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...
Available reporting and official documents show no verified evidence that Venezuela is a major source of fentanyl flowing to the United States; U.S. and international assessments point to Mexico (and ...
There is no strong evidence in current reporting that Venezuela is a major producer or primary trafficker of fentanyl into the United States; multiple analyses and U.S. agencies point to Mexico and Me...
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...
Venezuela functions largely as a transit and secondary route for cocaine headed to the United States and other markets; U.S. estimates in 2020 put 200–250 metric tons of cocaine transiting Venezuela a...
Multiple international organizations and accredited observer missions — most prominently The Carter Center and a UN Panel of Electoral Experts — publicly reported serious anomalies in Venezuela’s most...
Claims that Chinese manufacturers are sending fentanyl into the United States via Venezuela rest largely on broader evidence that China is a major source of precursor chemicals and on political statem...
Drug flows from Colombia through Venezuela into the Caribbean and toward Florida are primarily part of multi-stop, shifting maritime and air networks rather than simple direct runs, with most cocaine ...
By mid‑2025 detected unauthorized crossings at the U.S.–Mexico border dropped sharply from 2024 levels — monthly sector totals fell by more than 80–90% in some months and the Border Patrol recorded ro...
Accusations and reporting across multiple outlets and official reports tie parts of Venezuela — including coastal fishing communities — to cocaine transit and smuggling, with U.S. and independent repo...
U.S. deportation activity surged in late 2024 and early 2025 with dozens to hundreds of removal flights reported monthly (127 ICE removal flights in December, including 24 to Mexico) and at least tens...
U.S. agencies locate and stop suspected drug-smuggling vessels through a mix of maritime patrols, intelligence sharing, and interdiction authorities that increasingly involve the Navy, Coast Guard and...