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