“It is brutal imperialist aggression,” said former Bolivian President Evo Morales. The Trump administration’s military assault on Venezuela and apparent abduction of the country’s president in the early hours of Saturday morning sparked immediate backlash from leaders in Latin America and across the globe, with lawmakers, activists, and experts accusing the US of launching yet another illegal war of aggression. Latin […]
“Giving a general order to kill any survivors constitutes a war crime,” wrote Reps. Jamie Raskin and Ted Lieu. “Outside of war, the killing of unarmed, helpless men clinging to wreckage in open water is simply murder.” Making clear that the Trump administration’s “entire Caribbean operation,” which has killed more than 100 people in boats […]
“This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor to it,” warned one Democratic senator. President Donald Trump late Tuesday declared a blockade on “all sanctioned oil tankers” approaching and leaving Venezuela, a major escalation in what’s widely seen as an accelerating march to war with the South American country. The “total and complete blockade,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, […]
The Trump administration has offered no concrete evidence to support its claim that the boats destroyed by the US military were carrying drugs A woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the at least 17 people extrajudicially murdered by US military strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela said her slain […]
