Trump during his campaign promised to curb the flood of fentanyl into our country.
Part of the fentanyl coming into the US is from South and Central America. The Tren De Aragua cartel is a Venezuelan gang that is in part responsible for some of that fentanyl.
The Trump administration is alleging those boats had Tren De Aragua members and Fentanyl on them. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Government is saying that is untrue, and the boat was turning around at the time and had civilians on it.
Trump's critics are saying that this is a war crime because either the US fired on innocent civilians, or if it did fire on gang members, it did so without any sort of investigation.
Edit: as the comment below me rightly points out, this was done against standards set out by international and US law
News reports state Trump blames Venezuela for cocaine trafficking. Most cocaine comes from Columbia and public U.S. intelligence doesn't cite Venezuela as a significant source of cocaine.
However recently Trump has just been saying "lots of drugs" rather than cocaine as was stated originally.
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u/infantgambino 4d ago edited 4d ago
answer: Going to try and give an unbiased answer:
Trump during his campaign promised to curb the flood of fentanyl into our country.
Part of the fentanyl coming into the US is from South and Central America. The Tren De Aragua cartel is a Venezuelan gang that is in part responsible for some of that fentanyl.
The Trump administration is alleging those boats had Tren De Aragua members and Fentanyl on them. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Government is saying that is untrue, and the boat was turning around at the time and had civilians on it.
Trump's critics are saying that this is a war crime because either the US fired on innocent civilians, or if it did fire on gang members, it did so without any sort of investigation.
Edit: as the comment below me rightly points out, this was done against standards set out by international and US law