Washington (AP) – USA Military strike As for what the Trump administration said, Venezuela I came after the ship turned around and returned to the coast and raised a fresh question. Members of the council They are asking for more information about provocative attacks.
National Security Authorities this week saw a boat carrying 11 people by the Trump administration at a closure briefing in Capitol Hill. Tren de Aragua Gang Members were fired multiple times by the US military after changing courses, according to two people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. The New York Times first reported development.
New details arise when the Trump administration justifies a military strike, but several senators, Democrats and some Republicans have expressed dissatisfaction with the administration’s rationale and questioned the legality of its actions. They view it as a potential overdue for enforcement by using the military for law enforcement purposes.
Democrats challenge legal reasoning for strikes
In a letter to the White House, Virginia Sen. Tim Kane and 20 other Democrats said the Trump administration provided “just legal justification” to the strike.
Senators are asking for more information from the administration regarding the situation and use of US military power.
“Our military is not law enforcement,” said Sen. Jack Reid of Rhode Island, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Forces Committee, during this week’s floor speech.
“They are not given the authority to hunt down suspicious criminals and kill them without trial,” Reed said.
The Trump administration has argued that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is claiming drug cartels and self-defense as legal justification for strikes “Signs an immediate threat” To the country. The United States, which designated Tren de Aragua as a terrorist organization, More military strikes on drug targets could come Because they are seeking a “wage war” in the cartel.
“The President acted in line with the laws of armed conflict to protect our country from those trying to bring poison to our shores,” White House spokesman Anna Kelly said in a statement. “He’s offering his promise to take on the cartel and eliminate these national security threats from killing more Americans.”
She said, “It’s strange that everyone runs the cover for the evil Tren de Aragua Aragua Narcoseloists, as more than 100,000 Americans die from overdose each year.”
The pentagon adds that drug cartels find “no safe ports.”
“This strike sent a clear message. When you exchange drugs on our shores, the US military will use all the tools to stop you freely,” said Sean Parnell, a spokesman for the Pentagon.
In his speech, Reid said the administration “has no evidence that the ship was engaged in the attack or that it was engaged in drug trafficking at the time.” He also said the administration “neither the positive identification that the boat is a Venezuelan nor the positive identification that its crew is a member of Tren de Aragua or other cartels.”
Officials show that the military can start more strikes
It was unknown that the national security authorities explained the identity of the people on the boats and the administration’s evidence that they were gang members. One person familiar with the situation said that some of the boaters are not members of Tren de Aragua, but not members.
It was also not known whether the national security authorities provided information about the boat’s destination, and whether they were actually carrying drugs. They showed that the Pentagon had the ability to carry out additional military strikes in the area, people familiar with the issue said.
The Democratic senator argued that Congress did not allow the use of military force for this purpose.
“We argue that Congress did not declare war, and that it approved the use of military force for similar operations in the future,” the Democrat senator wrote in a letter to the president.
Senator Rand Raul, R-Ky. said it is unlikely that the boat will head to the US coast.
Paul – Republicans who leaned towards libertarians, especially in national security issues, with a long history of challenging management overreach, have argued that the US cannot simply kill people suspected of cheating without justice proceedings.
Venezuela accused the US of murder
In Venezuela, Home Minister Diosdado Cabello on Thursday accused the US government of murder, characterising that version of the event as “a tremendous lie” and questioning how people on target ships are associated with gangs.
“And how did they identify them as members of Tren de Lagua? Did they have a tip? Did they have a QR code? Cabello said, “They openly confessed that they were going to kill 11 people.”
Cabello said Venezuelan authorities are investigating the strike but have not provided details.
Cabello also rejected the US government’s claim that the targeted ship was carrying 11 people and drugs, explaining that a video released last week by the White House appears to show a small fishing boat known as the “Peñoro” in Venezuela.
“If you put 11 people in that Penello, when those Penello go to the sea, the fishermen have to carry gasoline for their return trips so they don’t drift away, so there’s no room for anything else,” Cabello said at a meeting of the ruling party.
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Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela.
