AP is reporting: “U.S. Strikes Venezuela, Captures Maduro and his Wife.”
GABRIEL AGUIRRE, [email protected], @WorldBeyondWar
Aguirre is Latin America Organizer for World BEYOND War based in Venezuela. See recent interview with him.
The group states: “The United Nations Charter makes it a crime to threaten war and a crime to wage war except in defense or by U.N. authorization, neither of which is the case here, and neither of which has even been alleged here.
“The alleged shortcomings of a government provide no legal basis for a foreign government to attempt to overthrow it.
“The illegal drug trade, even where real, provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder.
“U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims about the illegal drug trade regarding both Venezuela and over 100 people thus far killed in boats with U.S. missiles from drones are without evidence and widely considered not even plausible.” See full statement and link to more resources.