United States military attack on Tuesday against a speed-boat to which Washington has accused of drug trafficking and having left Venezuelawithout providing evidence, not only made the boat jump through the air and caused death to the 11 occupants, accused of being members of the band of Aragua. It is also a message from warning, or a threat, that the government of Donald Trump He is launching how far he is willing to arrive in the use of military forces in his fight against drug trafficking, even with more than questionable actions according to international laws.
I expressed it without tapujos on Wednesday the Trump Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, And he did In Mexico, where he is officially traveling. In a joint press conference with his Mexican counterpart, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, and speaking in Spanish, Rubio defended that Trump “used the US strength and power To prevent, to protect “ To the country.
“They exploded a boat. And it can pass again, it can be happening at this time, It can happen tomorrow, it can happen in a week… ”, He said.“ There is no doubt that these groups that have used these maritime routes through the Caribbean Nor they will be able to continue acting with impunity. (…) This president will not allow it. ”
“Imminent threat”
Rubio did not want to answer questions about whether the occupants of the boat were warned before being attacked or about whether in Washington worries intensify tensions with governments in Latin America, not only With Venezuelacountry to which the origin of the boat has been attributed and on which the pressure and the threat of shock have intensified with a military deployment near its waters. Rubio has only tried to justify that Trump has authority “to eliminate imminent threats to the US.”
Beside him the Mexican Chancellor left with diplomacy a message that eluded direct criticism of his guest but marked clear differences. The Outdraft Holder of the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum He said that Mexico believes “in self -determination, in non -intervention“As principles to govern your foreign policy.
From Colombia, one of the countries in the sight of Washington for its own problem associated with drug trafficking, there was a more direct questioning of the US. The President did Gustavo Petro, which said about what happened that “it is a murder anywhere in the world.” It seems to go beyond the concrete episode on Tuesday, he pointed to the danger that what happened becomes a new self -imposed rule by Washington to face what they have described as narcoterrorism.
“Bombardear the boat is break the universal principle of force proportionality and generate a murder. “In that sense he rescued the anti -narcotics and maritime interdiction policy of Colombia.” We have been capturing civilians who transport drugs without killing them, “he wrote in X.
“Recordings”
Neither state nor the Pentagon nor anyone from the Administration has still presented reliable evidence of the accusations expressed on the sunk vessel on Tuesday and the murdered occupants. The own Trumpin a statement to the press at the White House during his bilateral with the Polish president, Karol Nawrocki, has assured that they have “Recordings”Of the people in the boat.
“We have recordings of them speaking. They were Massive drugs of drugs That they were going to enter our country to kill a lot of people (…) In fact, the bundles and drugs are seen throughout the ship. They will no longer do it, ”said the president.
It was Trump who on Tuesday reported by surprise of the military operation and hung a video of the attack in Truth and he has also underlined his exemplary component. “I think many people will not do it again. When they watch that video, they will say: ‘Let’s not do it’”, He said in the Oval Office.
Hours before the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had also notified in an interview in Fox News that this is not a limited mission to Train of Aragua or Venezuela or the attack on Tuesday. “President Trump is willing to go to the attack in forms that have not been seen,” said the head of the Pentagon. “We have resources in the air, resources in the water, because this is a very serious mission for us and will not stop with this attack. Any person who traffic in these waters and knows that he is a designated narcoterrorist will run the same fate. ”
Classified directive
Trump’s controversial action opens a dangerous phase who already feared and anticipated leaders from other countries and observers. At the beginning of August, ‘The New York Times’ revealed that Trump signed in July a directive, which is still classifiedwhich instructs the au pentagonSAR MILITARY FORCE AGAINST BANDS AND DRUGS that the Trump administration has labeled as terrorists.
In that qualification, which Trump authorized in January, Rubio has included Venezuelan and transnational organizations as Aragua Train, Los Soles poster or Mara Salvatrucha and six Mexican posters.
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