US EditionAdam Zivo: Forget 'International Law,' Maduro's Arrest Was the Moral Thing to Do
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The capture by US forces and on Venezuelan soil of former President Nicolás Maduro is a mixture of magical and legal realism, which marks a before and after in contemporary international public order, which so much effort and war cost to forge. Maduro has been a dictator: he manipulated electoral results until he directly ignored them; he arrested and killed opponents; he caused the exodus of more than eight million Venezuelans; he reduced the e…
The kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro by the US likely constitutes a violation of international law, say experts DW spoke to.
The U.S. Attorney General stated that the U.S. operation to arrest Maduro in Venezuela was a "law enforcement action." On Monday (January 5), Attorney General Pam Bandi, in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, said the operation was a "law enforcement action" and "entirely within the powers of the President under Article II of the Constitution."
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