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Organized traffickers moving drugs from Venezuela into the Caribbean, using a mix of small coastal craft and commercial shipping networks, exploiting major Caribbean transshipment hubs.
Stephen Miller currently serves in the Trump White House as deputy chief of staff for policy and as the administration’s homeland security adviser, a role he assumed at the start of Trump’s second ter...
Venezuelans are not uniformly happy with the current state of the country; reactions range from ecstatic celebration among many in the diaspora to cautious hope, deep uncertainty and outright anger in...
Available U.S. and independent reporting indicates Venezuela is not a primary source or transit point for the bulk of illegal drugs reaching the United States, and experts describe its role as modest ...
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...
The available reporting reviewed here does not show publicly disclosed U.S. law enforcement investigations specifically targeting allegations that Venezuelan officials paid U.S. politicians; mainstrea...
Fact‑checking organizations uniformly report a lack of verifiable evidence that "emptied its prisons" and deliberately sent prisoners to ; and related checks documented searches of , and public record...
U.S. indictments and sanctions from 2018–2024 allege a pattern of state-linked drug trafficking in Venezuela: prosecutors have charged high-level officials with conspiring with cartels and guerrilla g...
Criminal gangs operating inside Venezuela — notably Tren de Aragua and prison-linked groups — supply muscle, logistics and maritime crews that move cocaine onto Caribbean transshipment routes, while c...
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...
Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal has publicly offered to cooperate with U.S. authorities from federal custody and has pleaded guilty to narco‑terrorism, narcotics and weapons charges, positioning himself as a...
Investigative reporting and government analyses over the past decade have documented Venezuela-linked money moving into U.S. markets and institutions—most consistently into U.S. debt markets, real est...
U.S. and international investigations have repeatedly tied documented seizures of drugs and illicit cargoes originating in or transiting Venezuela to senior Venezuelan officials through indictments, r...
Federal law flatly bars foreign nationals from giving money or coordination to U.S. federal campaigns, enforced through statutes administered by the Federal Election Commission and criminally enforced...
A raft of formal impeachment resolutions and renewed calls to remove President Trump are circulating in Congress and among Democratic lawmakers after the U.S. operation in Venezuela, but the House has...
Hugo Carvajal has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court and has repeatedly signaled willingness to cooperate with prosecutors, but public, authenticated testimony or formally filed documents from Carva...
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to narco‑terrorism, drug trafficking and related weapons charges following his 2023 extradition from Spain, and official Justice ...
There is no single, formal congressional demand that President Trump "step down" in 2026; what exists in the record is a House impeachment resolution accusing him of abusing presidential war powers an...
United Nations investigators, Human Rights Watch and U.S. reporting have repeatedly implicated core Venezuelan security institutions — most prominently the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), parts of th...