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The US government's claims about corruption ties to Venezuela, focusing on Venezuelan officials and their alleged involvement in drug trafficking and corruption.
Multiple major investigative news organizations and some regional watchdog reporters have published reporting alleging n officials and transnational criminal networks, while U.S. law-enforcement and o...
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York to conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, narco‑terrorism charges for providing material support to the ...
Reporting collected for this analysis yields no publicly disclosed, verifiable evidence that Venezuelan state actors or the so-called “Cartel de los Soles” have directly made campaign contributions to...
A narrow set of documented payments and contracts tie Venezuelan state-controlled entities to U.S.-based consultants and donors, but available reporting does not support a broad claim that U.S. politi...
U.S. prosecutors ground the superseding indictment against Nicolás Maduro in a mix of past criminal convictions, recorded meetings between DEA confidential sources and Maduro’s relatives, alleged tran...
U.S. authorities have pursued multiple cases and sanctions against Venezuelan kleptocrats and networks accused of siphoning state funds into foreign bank accounts, U.S. property and shell companies, a...
The two U.S. indictments—first unsealed in March 2020 and then superseded and re‑unsealed following Maduro’s capture in January 2026—accuse Nicolás Maduro and associates of running a state‑protected d...
Venezuela’s slide into authoritarian rule and the concentration of power that left the country “under the thumb” is the product of a multi-decade domestic transformation begun under Hugo Chávez and co...
Official U.S. statements about corruption ties to Venezuela have predominantly focused on Venezuelan officials — not U.S. politicians — with senior U.S. leaders, federal prosecutors, and executive-bra...