Power, Law, And The Venezuela Crisis – OpEd

What gets underway in Venezuela is not simply another foreign policy dispute or a response to alleged criminal activity. It clearly indicates a dangerous moment when a powerful state openly tested the limits of international law and institutional restraint. The United States’ military strikes inside Venezuela, followed by the forcible capture of its sitting president and his wife, were carried out without authorisation from the United Nations and in direct defiance of long-standing rules governing sovereignty...