1. Justificación legal del conflicto armado no internacional.
La administración Trump ha clasificado formalmente a los carteles de la droga como organizaciones terroristas y combatientes ilegales, argumentando la existencia de un "conflicto armado no internacional" para ejercer poderes de guerra extraordinarios sin la aprobación previa del Congreso.
- Trump has decided the u.s. Is in a formal armed conflict wdrug cartels has labeled terrorist organiz.s so backfills the admins justification for striking 3 boats in caribbean in sept, killing 17.
- Non-international armed conflict is a fancy euphemism designed to get around the fact that the president cannot legally declare war. Trump is using the bogus pretext of drug smuggling to try to overthrow the venezuelan government.
- The trump administration has determined the u.s. Is in a non-international armed conflict with drug cartels it has designated as terrorist organizations, it said in a notification to congress.
2. Denuncias de crímenes de guerra y perfidia.
Expertos legales y observadores internacionales denuncian que el uso de aeronaves con apariencia civil para realizar ataques y la ejecución de sobrevivientes en el mar constituyen violaciones graves a las Convenciones de Ginebra, calificando estas acciones como asesinatos premeditados.
- The laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called perfidy. U.s. Attacked boat with aircraft that looked like a civilian plane.
- The september 2 double tap that killed the two men would be a violation of the laws of war even under the administrations own self-justifying description of its campaign as an armed conflict with narcoterrorists.
- Isnt armed conflict where both sides are armed? what he is doing is murder against the geneva convention. Trump says us is in armed conflict with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the caribbean.
3. Intereses estratégicos: Petróleo y cambio de régimen.
Diversos sectores sugieren que la narrativa del conflicto armado contra el narcotráfico es un pretexto para desestabilizar al gobierno de Nicolás Maduro y asegurar el control sobre las vastas reservas de petróleo de Venezuela.
- So much for ending wars.our military blowing up boats in the caribbean with the aim of destabilizing maduro is a terrible escalation of a conflict that trump made. As the piece notes, this is not about fentanyl thats not where it comes from, its about regime change.
- Trump sparks outrage after admitting venezuela conflict is about oil on smartnews.
- The drug war is a war for control of venezuelas oil donald trump has opened a war in the caribbean without congress, without evidence, and without limits.
4. Impacto en la política interna y el uso de la Ley de Enemigos Alienígenas.
La declaración de un estado de conflicto armado permitiría a la administración invocar leyes históricas para facilitar deportaciones masivas y consolidar el control ejecutivo, vinculando la guerra exterior con la seguridad fronteriza doméstica.
- Creating a military conflict with venezuela gives this administration a legal hook to invoke the alien enemies act. Yup.
- Trump needs conflict with venezuela so he can designate them as enemy combatants which will allow him to invoke the insurrection act then he can declare martial law.
- He tried to use the alien enemies act to round up venezuelans courts said no war, no aea. Start a limited conflict and it roars back. Detention. Deportation. Surveillance.
5. Rechazo de la comunidad internacional y expertos legales.
Juristas y organizaciones de derechos humanos sostienen que no se cumplen los criterios de intensidad ni de organización necesarios para definir la situación como un conflicto armado, invalidando la aplicación del derecho de guerra.
- There is no credible factual or legal argument that the united states is engaged in an armed conflict with any drug cartel under international law. Trumps boat strikes are killing potentially innocent civilians.
- The term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder, brian finucane, a former state department lawyer, agreed that the u.s. Is not in an armed conflict with drug cartels.
- A broad range of legal experts reject the legitimacy of trumps claim that this is an armed conflict. They say that there is no armed conflict, crews of boats suspected of smuggling drugs are civilians, not combatants.