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There is a lot that you should be concerned when it comes to the current cabinet policies and practices that control our government. It seems that the Trams military administration around the world seems to be the current situation, and not anywhere more clear than the latest fatal show to be made in the Caribbean Sea region.
It started to follow the dark moves of the United States there on September 2. Reports of the deployment of war boats and other Macho movements towards Venezuela and the Panama channel did not bode well.
Here are some initial reports:
Reuters reported that “”The United States is building forces in the Caribbean Sea region as officials, experts, ask why::
US President Donald Trump He said that anti -drug gangs are a major goal of his administration, and US officials have told Reuters that military efforts aim to address threats from these cartridges.Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, said on Friday that military accumulation was aimed at “combating and dismantling drug smuggling organizations and criminal glory, and these foreign terrorist organizations in our hemisphere.”
But exactly it is not clear how the American military presence will disrupt the drug trade.
Among other things, most of the drugs transported by the sea travel to the United States across the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic Ocean, where the American forces are, and many of what arrives across the Caribbean comes on secret trips.
Venezuelan officials believe that their government may be the real goal.
In early August, the United States doubled its reward for the information that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to $ 50 million due to allegations of drug smuggling and criminal groups links.
CNN News 18 produced a report entitled “Diplomacy of the boat boat in Venezuela Trump: Sabri or introduction to the invasion?“
While the American warships carrying Cruise and Marine missiles were a cause for the coast of Venezuela this week, supporters of the head of state in South America, Nicholas Maduro, warned a mysterious imperial plot to invade Iraq. Maduro’s horror, Patriot called to help repel the assumed system change by joining the “Bolivarian militia”. Andald Trump’s allies posted messages on incendiary social media, warning of Venezuelan tyranny at the end. “Your days are dangerous,” Michael Flynn, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, announced that Maduro urged a “one -way ticket to Moscow.”
Regardless of your political position on the Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro, this last shit was worried.
Then the story turned dramatically when the United States opened fire on the Venezuelan boat, which they invited was involved in drug trafficking. The Trump regime publicly celebrated the killing of 11 Venezuelan.
The responses to the killings were immediate. Alex Woodward raised the issue of legitimacy to attack the independent in “Did Trump’s Venezuelan boat attacked a “war crime”? Experts say that the killings outside the judiciary violate international law::
In a video posted on the Donald Truth Social Social account, Crossaires hover over a black and white image from a fast boat that cuts water. After seconds, the boat It explodes in a ball of fire.
The President said that defense officials had a “terrorist” strike against the Venezuelan gang, Terin de Aragoa, on Tuesday morning as part of the administration Edge war against drug gangs.
Legal experts and former national security officials have opposed the president’s legal authority to launch outside judiciary killings against suspected drug trafficking, and asked dependent questions to both the increasing conflict of the administration with Venezuela, The president’s anti -immigration agenda.
“There is no evidence of self -defense here. It is like a civilian massacre in the sea,” According to Adam, IsaxonDirector of Defense Supervision in the Research and Call Group, Washington’s Office in Latin America. “Even if they have drugs on board, this is not a capitalist crime.”
The deadly force against civilians in international waters is a war crime if not in self -defense. According to Isaxon. “Not to be subject to identical” or “suspected of drug pregnancy” does not carry the death penalty. “
Many social media accounts, including those below, did not buy a Trump administration version of this farce
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio rose to clarify this recent anger. Adam IsaxonThe Director of Defense Supervision at the Washington Office in Latin America was starkly different:
Former CEO of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth was weighing in the Guardian: With “Trump was killed by 11 alleged drug dealers in Venezuelie, putting a dangerous precedent::
Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and reduced, it will enable the American authorities to shoot anyone who chooses them briefly
American army killing From 11 alleged Venezuelan Drug dealers traveling on a boat in international waters in the Caribbean region is an illegal use of war authorities to address what should have been the law enforcement. Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and reduced, the United States will enable the fire to be shot on anyone who simply chooses by declaring a “war” against them.
Last month, it was the case I mentioned Which – which Donald Trump He signed a secret decree allowing the Pentagon to use military force against some drug gangs in Latin America, claiming that they are “terrorist” organizations. On Tuesday, Trump books On his orders, the army targeted Trines de Aragua, “drug sinters”, accusing them of “working under the control of Nicholas Maduro” and the Venezuelan leader, who are “responsible for mass killing, drug trafficking, sex smuggling, violence and terrorism throughout the United States and the West.”
No attempt was reported to join the load of the boat from the people. The video associated with Trump’s statement indicates that the boat has been simply detonated. When asked why the boat did not stop and arrested his passengers, Trump Park Question and Proposal The killings would force travelers to think twice before trying to transfer drugs to the United States.
Under international Standards For law enforcement, deadly force can only be used as a last resort to meet an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury. This rule is logical because law enforcement officials must usually seek to arrest and trial criminal suspects. This is the best way to ensure that they commit the crime concerned. It also respects the fact that for most crimes, the penalty when condemning is a prison sentence, and not the death penalty – not to mention brief killing without trial.
Trump sought to evade these standards by declaring war against Venezuelan drug gangs. beginning With Richard Nixon in 1971, American presidents have repeatedly pointed to a “drug war”, but that was a metaphorical war, which is a rhetorical demand that the effort was important, not a craft war. Discrimination is important, because in real armed conflicts, the opposition fighters He can The shooting is made with brief procedures unless they are surrendered or in the reservation. Usually there is no duty to try to capture or arrest them.
There was nothing in the meeting at the Caribbean Sea, which indicates war. There was no suggestion that the alleged drug stores were shooting at American forces or participating in another way in what could be described as a fight. The American army simply blew water. War time rules were implemented in what should have been a law enforcement.
Trump calls the suspects who follow drugs that “terrorists” do not change the rules of law enforcement. Terrorists are criminals, not fighters. In the absence of an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury, they are He should It is caught, not shooting.
Elizabeth Will-Greenberg of Truthout asked in an article entitled “Bat” entitled “”Experts say that the dead boat of the Trump administration is up to the outside of the judiciary::
“Trump is calling for the right to conduct assassinations outside the judiciary,” a civil rights lawyer has been published on X.
The Trump administration distributed a white and black video clip that it says shows a deadly strike. AP Reports The White House “did not immediately explain how the army decided that those on board the ship are the members of the Trine de Aragoa.” The port also indicated that the video “is not clear enough to see if the craft carries up to 11 people” and “no big or clear hidden from the drug inside the boat.”
Experts say the deadly strike of the administration violated international law.
“The classification of a terrorist and the deployment of the army does not make him a military target,” Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Constitutional Rights Center said in a statement. the truth. “These measures reach the killing of outside the judiciary, a violation of international law, which should raise unusual concerns.”
“Without clear restrictions on the presidential and military authority, we may find this administration claiming that it can implement alleged drug dealers at home without any judicial operation, as happened in the Dotte system in the Philippines,” Warren continued.
Since I am writing this on Thursday, September 4, and this post will not publish until September 6, I will publish updates in the comments section below with the Karibian weekly Roundup. Please join me there for discussion. Do you think these were murders outside the judiciary?