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A US military operation detained the sitting Venezuelan president, who now faces narcoterrorism proceedings in a New York court. Since then the United States has maintained a military presence in and around the country, seized tankers linked to Venezuelan crude, and carried out strikes on vessels alleged to carry narcotics as well as on the leadership of the Tren de Aragua network, in at least one case jointly with Venezuelan forces. Congressional war-powers resolutions seeking to limit the deployment were introduced and narrowly defeated. Statements from the US president proposing that Venezuela become part of the United States were publicly rejected by the interim administration. The lawfulness of the operation and of the maritime strikes remains disputed.
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Capturing Maduro and striking Tren de Aragua ended a narco-state on America's doorstep -- a justified counter-narcotics and security operation.
Abducting a head of state, extrajudicial drug-boat killings and troops sent without a war-powers vote are unlawful overreach -- coercion, not the rule of law.
Invading a sovereign country to seize its president and its oil is naked imperialism -- gunboat diplomacy that shreds international law and threatens all of Latin America.
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