AN will set up a commission to investigate extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean by the United States

Published at: 30/11/2025 02:49 PM

This Monday, the National Assembly will set up a special commission composed of deputies to investigate the murder of Venezuelan fishermen in the Caribbean Sea by United States military forces, said the president of the Venezuelan parliament, Jorge Rodríguez.

During a press conference held this Sunday, Rodríguez indicated that the Legislative Branch will convene, this Monday, an extraordinary session to appoint the said delegation. “We have studied some of the reflections and some of the analyses carried out by the United States of America itself, military experts who are experts in international law and point out that this situation would have occurred in acts of war. We would be talking about war crimes, that is, if there had been a declared war and that declared war had led to those murders. We would be talking about war crimes,” he emphasized.

In this regard, he emphasized that these attacks that occurred near the Venezuelan coast cannot be classified in any other way than murders, extrajudicial executions.

In the same way, the president of the Venezuelan Parliament quoted some articles in newspapers such as the Washington Post detailing how these murders were ordered by the Secretary of War of the United States of America, Pete Hegseth. He also criticized the fact that a bipartisan committee of the United States Congress is the one who investigates these events.

“What has been happening since September 2 in the Caribbean Sea is clearly illegal. It is clearly illegitimate and violates international humanitarian law, violates the United Nations Charter, violates the Charter of Human Rights and also violates laws related to navigation and the laws of the sea and also the laws of war,” he stressed.

Mazo News Team