The escalation is clear. The legal framework for the intervention, more vague than ever. By a simple message on his Truth Social network, on the evening of Tuesday December 16, Donald Trump announced that the American army – and more precisely “the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America” – organized the maritime blockade of Venezuela, to prevent any movement of oil ships from this country, subject to sanctions. The objective seems to be the collapse of the local regime, due to lack of resources, while avoiding an American military intervention on the ground, with unpredictable consequences. On December 2, Donald Trump presented airstrikes in Venezuela itself as imminent.
A big blur sets in. It surrounds the true intentions of the American administration, which constantly oscillates between different registers: the fight against illegal immigration, against drugs and its cartels, against the regime of Nicolas Maduro, against its economic resources. This vagueness also concerns the scale of the campaign thus launched, the military resources requested and the legal framework in which it fits.
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