"Donald Trump's administration can one day launch a missile at a boat coming from Venezuela, killing its 11 crew members, and the next, publicly declare from the heart of the Mexican executive brancha regular target of its threatsthat there will be more attacks of this type. This is while U.S. State Secretary Marco Rubio, with the Mexican foreign minister standing at his side, hails the historic cooperation the U.S. has achieved with Claudia Sheinbaum's administration."
"From his first day back in the White House, Trump signed a decree to designate six Mexican cartels and two gangs, the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and the Central American Mara Salvatrucha, as terrorist organizations. When the president ordered the U.S. armed forces to combat drug cartels abroad in early August, alarm bells quickly rang in Venezuela and Mexico. Trump's two measures paved the way for a long-held dream of the Trumpist hardliners:"
"This alleged shipment is the only justification Trump has given for killing the crew, whom he accuses of being part of the Tren de Aragua. The president has also offered no legal basis for the attack beyond his own presidential orders: There was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people, and everybody fully understands that. Obviously, they won't be doing it again, he said Wednesday without further explanation."
U.S. forces struck an alleged drug boat in international Caribbean waters, killing eleven crew members the U.S. accused of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua. The strike followed presidential decrees labeling six Mexican cartels and two foreign gangs as terrorist organizations and an order to combat cartels abroad. U.S. officials publicly framed these measures as anti-drug cooperation while signaling readiness to use force, including threats directed at Mexican authorities. The measures lower legal barriers to extraterritorial military action and normalize lethal operations without transparent legal justification, heightening regional alarm and advancing hardline aims of military intervention under an anti-trafficking rationale.
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