The administration led by President Donald Trump, which considers Latin American drug cartels to be terrorist organizations and has declared a “direct armed conflict” against them, justifies the military operations of US troops in international waters
The United States claimed to have destroyed at least 35 vessels and caused more than a hundred deaths in the Caribbean and the Pacific in operations to combat drug trafficking, which lasted over the last five months.
The administration led by President Donald Trump, which considers Latin American drug cartels to be terrorist organizations and has declared a “direct armed conflict” against them, justifies the military operations of US troops in international waters.
In August, he ordered the sending of warships to the Caribbean, with Venezuela as the main focus, and later extended the offensive to the Pacific Ocean, involving Colombia and maritime routes along its coast.
Both the Government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and that of Gustavo Petro in Colombia — both accused by Trump of having links to drug trafficking — denounced these attacks as murders and extrajudicial executions.
The UN, in turn, warned that these actions constitute violations of international law and called on the United States to suspend them.
The escalation coincides with increased scrutiny in the US Congress over the legality of these operations, especially after the September 2 attack, when a bombing killed two survivors, an act that experts described as a possible crime.
The USA announced today that it had launched a new attack on Wednesday also in international waters, without giving further details, in which five people died.
