Legal justification by the US government of orders for the development of warships in the Caribbean Sea in order to act against Venezuela’s drug traffickers, pushing analysts to express concern that Washington will not be limited there.
US has been involved in ‘armed conflict»With cartel that are moving drugsUS President Donald Trump said in a note that was sent last week to Congress.
The letter was intended to justify the justification of the strikes launched by the US Armed Forces against high -speed drivers on which alleged drug traffickers were carried out. According to what is known, at least 21 people have been killed so far.
But the legitimacy of these military operations, in foreign or international territorial waters, against suspects who were not arrested, nor were they questioned, is the subject of questioning and opposition.
The Trump Government Ministry of Justice has drafted legal opinion It is legal for US Armed Forces to carry out fatal blows, CNN said this week, while the same source said President Trump authorized the CIA to conduct businesses in the area using fatal violence.
US Minister of Justice Pam Bodi, who appeared yesterday in the US Congress, has avoided confirming this information.
“What I can tell you is that Maduro is a drug -man”, Mrs Bodi said, reminding her that her ministry pronounces a $ 50 million remuneration for information that would lead to his arrest. “He has been prosecuted against him in our country”he added.
Trump has “lost his patience”
Washington claims that the Venezuelan president is head of a large circuit traveling drugs to the US market.
Caracas categorically denies the claim and accuses the US government of seeking a pretext to proceed “to status change » and grab the oil reserves of the Latin American country, which are one of the largest on the globe.
Evan Elis, a researcher at War College of the US Army, thinks Washington is likely to try to “He brings Maduro to justice.”
In the face of the development of a warships and fighter jets in the area, Caracas conducted military high schools and mobilized a reserve body.
“President Trump I feel like he has lost his patience,” Mr Ellis, who had worked in the government during the first term of the Republican tycoon, commented.
Nicolas Maduro addressed a letter to the US president, who called on the two countries’ dialogue to continue.
The White House rejected the offer.
‘Illegal regime’
Will President Trump push to change a regime in the country where the opposition claimed victory in the 2024 presidential election and insists that President Maduro’s re -election – which was not recognized by Washington and part of the international community – was fraudulent?
“We’re not talking about it, but we are talking about the elections that were very weird, to say it restrained,” said the person concerned yesterday to the White House.
“I can say that billions of dollars from drugs flood our country from Venezuela (…) Venezuela is a very bad factor,” Donald Trump still said.
Frank Mora, former Deputy Minister of Defense during the first term of democratic former president Barack Obama, does not exclude US blows even on Venezuelan territory against traffickers.
“The development of a warship’s sailboat to avoid anything, or just to destroy some outboard boats … I don’t think (President Trump and his government) had this in mind.”told the French Agency.
“The president says he wants to dismantle drug trafficking” but “at the same time his hope is that this will lead to the collapse of the regime”, added.
White House spokesman Caroline Levit refused to go into details of the government’s plans, but stressed yesterday that it was “Transparent and clear about the vision (her) in terms of the illegal status of Maduro.”
Evan Elis, however The President is not excluded Trump “To be able to close a deal that satisfies him and pass on something else.”
Source :Skai
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