\Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.
The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.
The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to “promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere”. The US is a member, and in March the Trump administration’s state department wrote: “The United States is pleased to be a strong supporter of the IACHR and is committed to continuing support for the Commission’s work and its independence. Preserving the IACHR’s autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.”
The photo of Alejandro and his son… ugh. Even if he was guilty of trafficking (extremely dubious), that in no way warrants a summary execution. Fuck Pete and anyone else that went along with this
That’s really it. It’s escalated to the point of a war crime. This is drug trafficking, not flying planes into buildings. Can drugs trafficked across a border be dangerous? Yes. Are they being trafficked because we decided that it would be better to addict the populace and then throw them in jail for modern day slavery? Also yes. Trump, Hegseth, and his ilk are creating the crimes they kill for. All under “novel interpretation of the law.” When the vapid blondes they surround themselves with aren’t helping, they’ve found another way to get their tiny cocks hard again, and it’s the same way that every Republican has, killing brown people.
It’s not even drug trafficking, it’s alleged drug trafficking.
We have drones, so can’t we just follow these boats to their dock and then arrest everyone? And pressure them to give evidence against their bosses? WTF is there to gain by murdering the driver of the boss’s vehicle? Mules are a dime-a-dozen.
That’s too complicated and doesn’t make for good entertainment. Blowing people up in a boat on video is a spectacle. It’s a short propaganda bit you can broadcast in the news and on social media showing the people that you are strong and doing something against all the evil attacking the US in a way the target audience understands.
This is not about really solving a problem, it’s for show.