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No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
China is now the dominant buyer of Venezuelan oil, taking roughly 80% of exports in recent months (about 746,000 bpd in November) and absorbing large volumes of fuel oil and methanol as well (136,000 ...
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...
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...
U.S. oil companies have repeatedly filed claims and won international arbitration awards against Venezuela for past expropriations and lost investments, but those legal victories have not translated i...
The statement that "Venezuela's Maduro is a dictator and stole the last elections" is partially supported by credible human-rights reporting about political repression, but contested by analysts who a...
The widely circulated claim that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal "released" a list naming U.S. senators who received kickbacks from the Maduro regime is unsupported by available rep...
Available reporting shows no evidence that Venezuela has conducted an organized program of “sending” prisoners into the United States; instead, high‑profile prisoner swaps have moved small numbers of ...
U.S. forces have struck and destroyed multiple vessels they described as drug-smuggling boats departing Venezuela; reporting shows roughly 18–21 strikes and 70–83 people killed as of mid‑ to late‑Nove...
China and Russia prop up Venezuela through a mix of economic arrangements, political backing, and—particularly from Russia—military cooperation, but both partners have narrowed or conditioned support ...
President Trump’s reference to “stolen” oil fields points to long-standing disputes over assets nationalized by Venezuela under Hugo Chávez in the 2000s—particularly the 2007 expropriations of foreign...
The core claim across reporting is that elements of the Venezuelan state—particularly military officers—have enabled and in some cases directed large-scale cocaine trafficking, creating a de facto par...
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...
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 describes “go‑fast” boats as relatively small, high‑speed smuggling vessels capable of carrying large drug loads and crews; one recent U.S.–targeted vessel was described as “on the...
Available reporting on the Dec. 10, 2025 U.S. seizure of the oil tanker identified as Skipper describes a Coast Guard–led boarding of a sanctioned vessel alleged to be part of a “shadow fleet” moving ...
The available evidence indicates that , including indictments alleging coordination with armed groups and management of trafficking networks; U.S. government designations and rewards for information r...
Venezuela has paid varying amounts of compensation to owners of nationalized assets: some firms received multi‑hundred‑million to billion‑dollar settlements (Exxon – originally $1.6bn award later redu...
The Department of Justice’s Maduro indictments allege a high‑level narco‑terrorism conspiracy: prosecutors say Maduro and close officials conspired with Colombian guerrillas and traffickers to export ...
Boats have long been a key tool in the movement of illicit drugs from South America, and reporting shows Venezuelan coastal towns and criminal groups are part of that maritime ecosystem — but the pict...