US President Donald Trump sent a confidential report to Congress this week declaring war on drug cartels.
According to the document, to which the The New York Times and Associated Press They had access, Washington argues that he is involved in a “formal armed conflict” with drug trafficking, which his team labeled as “terrorism” recently.
With the classification, suspected of being traffickers will be considered “illegal combatants”. The measure is the government’s latest justification to support its military actions in the Caribbean against Venezuela vessels.
Changing status from operations to “active armed conflict” would place the United States in a legal position in the legal sense to be able to arrest and even eliminate foreign threats, as terrorist organizations are considered.
Last month, the US Armed Forces made three attacks against Venezuelan vessels considered suspicious of involvement with drug trafficking, justifying that the actions aimed at “self -defense”.
