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Venezuela's role in cocaine trafficking to the US, Europe, and West Africa
There is substantial official evidence that Venezuelan territory and corrupt Venezuelan officials have been used to move large quantities of cocaine and to facilitate partnerships with transnational t...
Independent and government investigations overwhelmingly point to Mexico as the principal site of illicit fentanyl production destined for the United States, while regional police and international re...
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...
Hugo Carvajal’s Dec. 2 letter, sent from U.S. custody and first published by the Dallas Express, presents a series of explosive allegations: that Venezuela’s political and military leadership operated...
Between 2024 and 2025 governments—most prominently the United States—escalated a mix of military, intelligence, legal and economic actions aimed at disrupting drug flows they tied to Venezuela, includ...
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...
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...