NYT: U.S. assassinations in the Caribbean “should alarm all Americans”
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Published at: 25/09/2025 02:32 PM
In a
publication entitled: “Neither Trump nor any other president should have this
kind of power”, this Thursday's editorial in The New York Times (NYT), questions the murder of at least 17 people in the Caribbean Sea by the military
of the United States (USA) by order of President
Donald Trump.
The media reports
that the US government has not provided any proof of its
claims that they were transporting drugs, but if they were correct, “
blowing up boats is an illegal exercise in the use of lethal force.”
In this regard,
the article points out that, “with these attacks, Trump has ordered the
summary execution of people who are not at war with the United States in any of the
traditional senses of the term and that it is possible that they were not even
committing the crime of which they are accused. It's a violation of due process of
law that should alarm all Americans. It's even more extreme
than their policy of sending migrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador,” he says.
He also criticizes
that the United States, created in opposition to the monarchy, should never become a
country in which the president can order the indefinite imprisonment or the unilateral
murder of people for the mere fact of considering them criminals.
In addition, he argues
that federal law, first passed in 1949 and updated many times
since then, maintains that only the Coast Guard - and not the Navy, special
forces or any other military branch - has the right to carry out police
operations on the high seas.
Mazo News Team