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Illegal drug trade in Venezuela - Wikipedia
Illegal drug trade in Venezuela is the practice of illegal drug trading in Venezuela. Venezuela has been a path to the United States for cocaine originating in Colombia, through Central America and Mexico and Caribbean countries such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
Venezuela’s Cocaine Revolution - InSight Crime
May 3, 2022 · Today, Venezuela is at risk of becoming the world’s fourth cocaine-producing country. And the Maduro regime has positioned itself as the gatekeeper to the country’s drug trade, controlling access to cocaine’s riches not only for drug traffickers but also for corrupt politicians and the military-embedded trafficking network known as the ...
Venezuela: corruption has created a cocaine superhighway to the US - CNN
Apr 17, 2019 · A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from...
Venezuela, Latin America’s Next Cocaine Producer Country?
May 3, 2022 · This binational criminal economy is facilitated by a porous border that allows both illicit goods and people to move freely between the two countries. While Colombian cocaine flows into Venezuela for export, Venezuelan labor moves in the other direction to …
Weaponized Drug Trafficking: How Venezuela Built a Super Cartel …
Sep 22, 2022 · As of 2022, Venezuela is responsible for distributing close to 400-450 metric tons of cocaine out of the global cocaine market of ~1800 metric tons. Therefore, the Cartel of the Suns went from a ~1% portion of the global market in 2010 to …
Drug Trafficking Within the Venezuelan Regime: The 'Cartel of the …
May 17, 2018 · In Latin America, criminal entrepreneurs in the form of cartels, have traditionally run drug trafficking. In Venezuela, it is managed from within government, and if Nicolás Maduro wins another term in office, Venezuela’s position in the global cocaine business will solidify.
Nearly 24 Percent of Global Cocaine Production Passes Through Venezuela
Apr 13, 2021 · In its 2021 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the U.S. Department of State said that Venezuela is a major country for cocaine transit by way of maritime, land, and air routes, adding that suspected drug trafficking flights take off for the most part from clandestine airstrips in Apure and Zulia states, on the Colombian border.
Venezuela, from transit country to cocaine producer
Mar 15, 2023 · Venezuela may have become a drug-producing country in recent years, after decades of serving largely as a key bridge for the trafficking of illegal substances. So say the US government and Insight...
Exclusive: Secret US op spied on Venezuelan officials to build drug ...
Feb 1, 2024 · By authorizing otherwise illicit wire transfers through U.S.-based front companies and bank accounts, the DEA aimed to unmask the Colombian drug traffickers and corrupt officials leveraging Venezuela’s tightly controlled foreign currency exchange system to …
Is Venezuela Becoming a Major Cocaine Producer?
May 17, 2022 · For a while now, Venezuela has been considered a major maritime transit country for cocaine via aerial and maritime routes, the U.S. Department of State’s 2022 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report indicates. According to the same report, nearly 24 percent of global cocaine production transits through Venezuela.