President Donald Trump announced Friday Un New attack against a boat that crossed the Aguas del Mar del Caribe on Under the pretext that he was carrying drugs to the United States. The news is known 17 days after the first attack against a boat in which 11 people qualified as “drug traffickes” lost their lives. According to the Republican Magnate, the new sinking is the fourth of a similar series and three people who were on board have lost their lives.
“Under my orders, War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered A lethal kinetic attack against a ship affiliated with a designated terrorist organization that he was doing drug trafficking work in the area of responsibility of the southern command of the United States, “he informed through the social network Truth about the responsibility that the US army was self -denied in the region. There was no specific mention to any criminal group.
The boat, Trump added, had the purpose of “poison Americans”. The president’s message concluded with a harangue: “Stop selling fentanil and illegal drugs in the United States and committing violence and terrorism against Americans!”
The fourth episode is known in the middle of the climbing of tension in relations with Venezuela, where by order of President Nicolás Maduro, more than six million citizens have been summoned to join a militia in the event of an armed conflict with Washington. This same Friday, the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, informed that the Venezuelan army made a “successful” military maneuver on the island of the Orchila, in Venezuelan waters of the Caribbean Sea.
While in the last message he did not make an explicit allusion to that country, the White House insists on awarding the main responsibility for drug flow to the United States. Venezuela relies on United Nations figures according to which only 5% of the traffic starts from that country. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubioit has subtracted importance from those numbers.
The subsidence in turn opened the discussion to a debate inside and outside the United States on the legality of these actions in international waters. “American officials cannot kill people who accuse of traffic drugS, “said Sarah Yager, director at Washington de Human Rights Watch (HRW). “The problem of narcotics who enter the United States is not an armed conflict, and US officials cannot avoid their human rights obligations pretending otherwise,” he added in clear allusion to the militarization of Caribbean waters. “The International Pact of Civil and Political Rights, to which the United States is signed, protects the right to life.” Yager recalled that “the legal standards of human rights, who exercise public order functions, including military, including military, including military order, They should seek to minimize damage and preserve human life“And” they can only use lethal force when strictly inevitable to protect against an imminent threat of death or serious injuries.
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