The US Navy has a tradition of combating illegal fishing in distant waters around the globe. This may be acceptable as long as US vessels operate in a maritime zone at the invitation of the coastal state.
Without such invitation, a Venezuelan fishing vessel was recently assaulted by US troops, in Venezuelan waters [1]. Whatever you may think of Venezuela’s government, this is a flagrant breach of international maritime law. Even if it were true that the Venezuelan President Maduro ‚leads a cartel to flood the US with drugs‘, as Trump claims, US troops have no right to operate in Venezuela’s Exclusive Economic Zone [2].
In early September, a US warship attacked a ship that had left a port in Venezuela and, according to Trump, had ‘terrorists’ and large quantities of ‘drugs’ on board, without providing any evidence.
In August, US warships with more than 4,000 troops had already been deployed to the Caribean Sea, allegedly to stop the marine traffic of Latin American drug cartels. The government in Caracas believes that Trump is trying to create pretexts to take control of Venezuela, a poor country that is nevertheless rich in resources and represents a tempting prey for self-proclaimed deal makers…
The man who so much desperately wants the Noble peace price is waging war.
Title picture:
US Navy boarding a fishing vessel in the North Arabian Gulf in 2007.(Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Karen Eifert / Wikimedia Commons)
References:
[1] https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-united-states-warship-fishermen-e08c3abde034df0f50c1ea66dff7718b
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
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