> Does fentanyl come from Venezuela?

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No, fentanyl does not come from Venezuela. The vast majority of illicit fentanyl entering the United States is produced in Mexico, using precursor chemicals primarily from China.
According to reports from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and other independent experts:

Production Hubs: Fentanyl is overwhelmingly produced in clandestine labs by criminal groups in northern Mexico.
Trafficking Routes: It typically enters the U.S. via land through the southern border, often at official ports of entry, and is mostly smuggled by U.S. citizens.
Venezuela's Role: Venezuela is not mentioned in DEA or UNODC assessments as a source or significant transit country for fentanyl.
Cocaine vs. Fentanyl: While Venezuela is a transit country for some cocaine shipments (much of which is destined for Europe), it is not involved in the fentanyl supply chain to the U.S..
No Evidence: Multiple sources and expert reports confirm there is no evidence of fentanyl production or trafficking from Venezuela to the United States.

Trump’s Venezuela Gambit: An Incoherent Encore in a Failed Drug War

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that “narcoterrorists” are on these boats, transporting large quantities of fentanyl and other illegal drugs into the US to poison Americans, and he wants them obliterated. He asserts that each boat destroyed by the Navy with missiles saves 25,000 lives. As of this writing, 22 boats have been sunk, which amounts to 550,000 lives saved since early September—more than five times the nation’s annual overdose toll.

For one, Venezuela likely has nothing to do with smuggling fentanyl into the US. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) annual National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA)—its definitive statement on drug sources and trafficking routes—makes the picture clear: fentanyl is produced overwhelmingly in Mexico, using precursor chemicals that come primarily from China and India.

Across every edition of the NDTA, Venezuela never appears as a fentanyl source or transit country. In other words, even the federal government’s own drug-intelligence apparatus does not link Venezuela to the US fentanyl supply.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) World Drug Report conveys the same message. Its global sourcing maps and trafficking analyses reveal no fentanyl production in Venezuela, no identified fentanyl-trafficking networks based there, and no South American involvement in the synthetic-opioid supply chain. Instead, the pattern remains consistent year after year: precursors originating in Asia (e.g., China, India, Myanmar), production in Mexico, and distribution into the United States, with Venezuela completely absent from the scene.

Interdiction data tell the same story. Recent, publicly available US Coast Guard and Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF)–South’s seizure data do not show any fentanyl coming from Venezuelan-linked maritime routes. The Coast Guard’s drug-interdiction reports are filled with seizures of cocaine, marijuana, and occasional heroin in the Caribbean—but essentially no fentanyl, and none linked to Venezuela. Given that the arrests and offloads are heavily dominated by cocaine and the frequency of reports, the absence of fentanyl in hundreds of listed shipments is significant, not a trivial oversight.

There has never been a US Department of Justice indictment involving fentanyl trafficked from Venezuela or the Caribbean corridor.

https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-venezu … d-drug-war

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