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It's the morning of September 1st, 2025, in the Bocas del Dagon, the mouths of the dragon,

a 15-mile series of straits separating Venezuela's Paria Peninsula with the western shores of

the island of Trinidad.

It's a key criminal transshipment point, whether for drugs heading into the Caribbean, the US and Europe, or people, smuggled from a life in one of the world's most repressive dictatorships, to what they pray will be freedom, perhaps in the land of the free itself.

Which is why the site of a 40-foot speedboat, barreling along the ocean's surface with the power of four 200-horsepower engines, isn't that strange.

Far less than on this particular morning, and on this particular vessel, sit no fewer than 11 people huddled around a collection of barrels.

Fish?

Maybe.

Drugs?

Likely.

See, Venezuelan media reports that the speedboat has come from San Juan de Unari,

a sleeping fishing village at the very frontier of the Venezuelan state.

Not only because beyond it lies a little bit jungle, but because it is poor and remote,

300 miles east of the capital city, Caracas, across some of the least accessible terrain on earth.

That's why tiny San Juan de Onari, population of just a few hundred, has for two decades turned into a hotly contested cartel plaza.

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