With more doubts than certainties, the attack against a small length boat admitted by the United States government opened a new and unnecessary problem against the administration of Donald Trump, after his government has decided to keep a suspicious silence about the operation in which 11 people were supposedly killed.
Between drums and dishes, and with airs of superiority, both Trump, and their Secretary of State Marco Rubio, announced the operation in which warships destroyed a small boat with 11 people on board, and who transported “large amounts of cocaine”, in the middle of an alleged fight against drug trafficking on the Venezuelan coast. But the announcement left doubts that they have not been able to, nor dear, be clarified.
US legislators are exercising strong pressure to the government to explain the details of the operation, but officials did not provide new data. Congressmen question the legality of the attack, since it implies an extrajudicial execution and a flagrant violation of human rights.
The Pentagon canceled on Friday the information sessions that it should be made for several committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Legislators expected to ask questions on the legal basis of the attack, as well as obtain details of the operation, to which the White House has avoided responding.
The administration tries to maintain that the 11 people on the boat were military objectives, because they were supposedly members of the Aragua Train, an organization considered terrorist by the United States. However, experts question it.
The members of cartels and drug traffickers have traditionally been considered criminals entitled to due legal process, and not enemy combatants, the publication indicates.
In addition, jurists caught the attention to the statement of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in which he said that the boat could have been intercepted, but that the US government preferred to destroy it.
“That already says it,” said a former pentagon left by the government in recent months. “Any minimally plausible argument on the inherent authority of the commander in chief to carry out a military action would require that there was no alternative to the use of lethal force.”
The government of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, warned that Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to stain President Donald Trump with his hatred actions against the oil country. The case of the alleged “Narcolanche” could be one of the actions that lead to Trump to put Trump within their country.
