"The US's threats of expanding military attacks across Latin America has alarmed some regional leaders, including Mexico. United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that military attacks on alleged drug traffickers will happen again, brushing aside concerns over the legality of such attacks and the sovereignty of Latin American nations. Speaking during a news conference in Mexico City on Wednesday, Rubio pledged continued security coordination with countries like Mexico, but suggested the US would not hesitate to take extreme measures on its own."
"Rubio framed the air strike as part of a shifting strategy in the US's ongoing war on drugs. The United States has long for many, many years established intelligence that allowed us to interdict and stop drug boats. And we did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work, Rubio said. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them."
"Rubio then explained that the attack was authorised personally by Trump. It had been in the south Caribbean Sea at the time of the attack, and Rubio said it was headed for the US. Instead of interdicting it, on the president's orders, we blew it up. And it will happen again, Rubio said. Maybe it's happening right now. I don't know."
The United States has signaled it will expand military attacks across Latin America targeting alleged drug traffickers, alarming regional leaders including Mexico. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US will continue security coordination with Mexico but will not hesitate to act unilaterally when necessary. The statement followed a presidential-authorized air strike that destroyed a small vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing all 11 aboard; officials identified the craft as a drug-smuggling boat from Venezuela. Rubio framed the strike as a new strategy because historical interdiction efforts 'don't work,' and warned that similar strikes will occur again.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]