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Fentanyl trafficking

Fentanyl production and trafficking, primarily through Mexico, and its impact on the U.S.

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Jan 13, 2026
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What countries smuggle in the most drugs into the USA. What drugs? and how?

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...

Jan 16, 2026
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Which drugs are trafficked to USA from Venezuela

Cocaine is the principal drug linked to trafficking routes that touch Venezuela and can reach the United States, though most U.S.-bound cocaine flows originate in Colombia and travel via the Pacific t...

Jan 8, 2026

What other major illicit drugs are produced in or transited through Venezuela (cocaine, meth, heroin)?

Venezuela is primarily associated with cocaine trafficking—both as a transit hub and, increasingly since the 2010s, as a site where processing and export occur—while clear evidence for large-scale met...

Jan 7, 2026

Fentanyl flows from China to Venezuela and to the US

The available reporting and official analyses do not support a clear, direct pipeline of fentanyl routed from China to Venezuela and then into the United States; instead, most intelligence and open-so...

Jan 7, 2026

What steps have China and India taken to regulate exports of fentanyl precursors and how effective have those measures been?

China and India have both tightened controls over fentanyl-related substances and precursors in recent years, with China implementing class-wide scheduling in 2019 and successive export licensing and ...

Jan 6, 2026

What documents or reports link the Venezuelan boat to known drug trafficking networks?

Official U.S. statements and some media reporting assert that specific Venezuelan boats and a docking facility were linked to drug-trafficking networks, but the principal public documents cited by pre...