The world is debating in its multiple geopolitical fronts with the US and Donald Trump as protagonists. With the fires of the capture of Nicolás Maduro and the intervention in Venezuela and the desire to annex or acquire Greenland, this Wednesday the alarms went off due to another event. The Navy of the ship Bella 1, renamed Marinera after a strange change of ‘identity’
Miguel Golmayo, captain of the Navy and expert in energy and military intelligence, has intervened in The Economy in 24 hours., the daily space that TVE’s 24 Hours channel dedicates to economic analysis. In its analysis, the military high command has justified the US action with the ship now under the Russian flag and has placed a not so distant Spanish antecedent.
The Bella 1, which had been flying for weeks under the Guyana flag, raised US alerts by suspect that it was part of the so-called ‘ghost fleet’ of Russia. These are the ones that weigh on its commercial activity since it invaded Ukraine.
Regarding it and with a new Russian flag on its hull, captain Miguel Golmayo has more than doubts. First, because with The “photos that have been seen” of the ship show “an empty ship, a ship that is not loaded with oil”. He does clarify that it remains to be confirmed whether those images that are circulating these days are archive or recent.
“There are very few reasons and one is this”
Con the suspicion of the change of flag and an alleged empty navigationthe Navy captain sees the interception by the US as understandable, which has generated tensions with Moscow because it is considered a “violation of the law of the sea.”
“The law of the sea is complicated,” Miguel Golmayo quickly clarifies. After clarifying that “it is not a case of piracy and it does not have slaves”—two of the reasons to justify an interception in international waters—he alleges another factor that is true. “It is clear that he changed his flag and The fact that the flag on a ship does not match the papers is a reason to be able to intercept it“.
“There are very few reasons for an interception at sea and one of them is this“, he continued to clarify in his speech in The Economy in 24 Hrs.
For Captain Golmayo “that a ship leaves port with a flag and that in the middle of the road I have another It’s a frankly thing. rara“Thus, he wanted to highlight the anomaly that the documentation does not match the flag. “That is a reason why a ship can be attacked, but in the end the courts will say who is right.”
“It usually happens very rarely, it is not something normal,” he says, but there is a precedent in Spain. “It happened to us with the So San, a missile ship in the Horn of Africa“, an operation carried out in December 2002 in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen. “In the end the reason was Spain because the identity of the ship and its flag did not coincide,” the expert concluded.
