Senators from Republicans and Democrats require the Pentagon to provide good justification for military activities in the Caribbean basin, which is said to be aimed at anti -drug trafficking. This was reported on October 2 Wall Street Magazine (WSJ) There is reference to sources.
According to their information, on October 1, at a short meeting at the US Armed Forces Committee of the United States of the United States, the Pentagon's legal adviser sketched legislators on the reasons for attacks on ships in Caribbean, referring to US President Donald Trump's recognition for some Latin -ammeran Latin -ammeran. However, some senators from both sides are still dissatisfied with the explanations provided and consider not enough to justify the Pentagon.
According to WSJ, right after a short meeting in the Trump Senate Commission informed the National Assembly that the United States is in a state of “international non -international military conflict” with cartels. The US leader called them “terrorist organizations”, who had an act of being equated with a “armed attack on the United States”.
According to Reuters, on August 19, the three US Navy destroyers were sent to the southern part of the Caribbean region to the shore of Venezuela “for conducting activities to fight drugs.”
In addition, the transfer of atomic submarines of the United States, a missile cruiser, landing and 4.5 thousand military employees to the area has been reported. Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro constantly stated that the country has suffered the most serious threat to the US invasion over the past 100 years.
The US Navy destroyed at least two high -speed boats with a total of 14 people who were said to have transported drugs from Venezuela in the international waters of the Caribbean. In a speech at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, US President Donald Trump said that the United States would continue to attack ships that were thought to be related to Venezuelan drug activities.
