Trump officials push claim that US in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels | Donald Trump
According to a person who is familiar with the notification of the Congress, the Trump administration advances a new legal theory in which the US is now in a non -international armed conflict, and tries to justify the alleged strikes of Venezuela drug boats.
The notification was provided by senior Pentagon officials as part of the attempt to announce the legal arguments for strikes, including a secret briefing of the Trump administration’s members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
The US army comes after a strike on three boats that killed 17 people in the Caribbean last month and triggered widespread international anger.
The administration must notify the Congress by the law to use the US government to use armed forces.
The New York Times reported that the management’s grade stated that. regulationsAnd at the same time, he repeats the past reasons for accusing boats, including members of a Venezuela drug gang, where strikes are carried out in defense and their boats.
However, the note is further further and the US army’s attacks on boats as a part of a constant conflict.
The note also states that Trump’s Cartels, who are engaged in smuggling, see actions as “non -state armed groups that make an armed attack against the United States ..
The Trump administration has been increasing its military presence in the Caribbean in recent months and using a series of ships and military personnel to Porto Rico. Military action justified as a necessary rise to ensure the flow of drugs to the United States. However, some MPs and human rights groups questioned the legality of attacks.
Notification to the Congress represents an aggressive rise in the US government’s attempts to stop the narcotic flow. In recent years, the US government has focused on more and more political goals in recent years, which can be seen as an attempt by the administration as an attempt to print on the Venezuelan government.
On Thursday, Venezuela officials referred to CNN’s government and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, and said that they discovered about 46 miles (74km) from the Caribbean coast.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration determined that several penalty groups were “terrorist” organizations. There were a number of Mexican cartel, MS-13 gang, Venezuela gang train in Aragua and Venezuela’s cartel de los soles.
For years, the US government has accused Nicolás Maduro Venezuela government of involvement in drug trafficking. Earlier this year, the Trump administration accused Maduro of directing the activities of Aragua, and hundreds of immigrants used it as a reason to expel a bad Salvador prison within the scope of the law of xenophobia.
Intelligence evaluation They found that Maduro’s train was also very proof of their connections with Aragua.
Maduro and its cabinet and members of the army are also accused of carrying out Cártel de los soles by the United States and making traffic cocaine to the USA. The infrastructure of the cartel, drug trafficking analysts and experts, Cartel de los soles loose network Lower -ranking military officials who do not have a solid hierarchical structure.
Earlier this year, the US government increased its award for Maduro to $ 50 million. In the Federal Court of Manhattan, there is an active indictment about the Cartel de Los Soles case. A defendant and former senior Venezuela Military Intelligence Chief was found to be guilty of narco-terrorism crimes earlier this year.
In recent weeks, three ships targeted by the US were passing through the Caribbean. Trump management officials, evidence, ships, train members of the US with drugs against the United States, he said.
The administration was determined to increase its struggle against Fentanyl smuggling to the USA. However, Fentanyl typically comes to the southern border of Mexico.
