A Trump administration informed Congress In a confidential notification this week, President Donald Trump “determined” that the United States is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels and that members of organizations can be aimed as illegal combatants.
“The president determined that these cartels are not state armed groups, appointed them with terrorist organizations and determined that their actions are an armed attack on the United States,” the report said.
“In response, based on the aggregate consequences of these hostile actions against citizens and interests of the United States and friendly foreign states, the president determined that the United States is in an interprete-warmed conflict with these prescribed terrorist organizations,” he added.
The designation essentially puts drug cartels in the same legal category as terrorist groups, such as Al -Caida or Islamic State.
In recent weeks, the US military has hit at least three Venezuela boats Allegedly carries drug addicts And the drugs that could threaten the Americans said Trump about social truth.
The notification of the Congress lists examples of actions that Trump could take in aiming on cartels, and led to the attack on September 15, which died “approximately 3 illegal combatants.”
The White House defended the blows.
“As we have already said, the president acted in accordance with the law of the armed conflict in order to protect our country from those who are trying to bring fatal poison on our shores, and he fulfills his promise to take cartels and eliminate these threats of national security from the murder of more Americans,” said the representative of the White House Anna Kelly in a statement on Thursday.
NBC News reported last month that the administration Given the impacts on drug cartures Inside Venezuela.
Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro denied what kind of role in drug trafficking and repeatedly argued that the United States was trying to force him from power.
Many critics of strikes, including the Democrats of Congress and some Republicans, argue that the administration still does not have a legal branch for aiming on drug cartels using the US military, and that it remains a law enforcement issue of the ban. State Secretary Marco Rubio, who also acts as a consultant on national security, announced ineffective efforts on the prohibition.
