U.N. condemns U.S. strikes on Venezuelan waters destroying boats. Trump admin must be held accountable

Power is clearly being abused here

We're in an era where some of the powerful nations, don't want to be too judgemental but especially the super power nations, like the United States and Russia act without consequence. But the United Nations recently sent a strong message directed to Trump's Administration and the U.S military

The message is this - No country is above international law.

This week, U.N. human rights experts openly condemned a series of U.S. military strikes near Venezuela. They described the strikes as extrajudicial executions and see it as a violation of both international maritime law and the U.N. Charter as well.

This condemnation came after a number of very controversial U.S. military operations in the Caribbean Sea. Since early this year, the U.S. military under direct authorization from the President, Donald Trump, has destroyed several boats which they claim were carrying drugs linked to the Venezuelan government.

So far, six vessels have been attacked this year alone and the attack led to the deaths of at least 27 people.

President Trump defended the strikes as part of what he called a campaign against narcoterrorists connected to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

He even confirmed that he had allowed the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela which escalated the tension between Washington and Caracas. The U.S. claims the attacks were acts of self defense under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter. That Charter allows countries to protect themselves from armed threats.

The U.N. experts are seeing things from an entirely different perspective. On October 21, 2025, the UN said that even if the U.S. claims were true, their strikes still had no valid legal basis. Using lethal force in international waters without proper justification directly violates the international law of the sea and leads to extrajudicial executions. The strikes were an extremely dangerous escalation and poses great threat to peace and security across the Caribbean region.

Accountability is the good news in this story, the fact that the UN holds the Trump administration accountable for their actions.

For many years, international observers have criticized global institutions for being too slow or too weak to call out major powers when those major power cross the line. It's clear the Trump administration crossed lines here and this time, the U.N. is standing up for justice, human rights and the sovereignty of smaller nations.

Foreign Minister Yván Gil commended the statement of the UN and said that this proves what we have been denouncing all along.

He has accused the U.S. of inventing enemies to justify unlawful military actions. The United States, by that, we mean the Administration in power has a knack for fabricating enemies to justify a supposed right to self defense and this particular one resulted in massacres in the Caribbean.

Washington rejected the accusation. A senior State Department official totally dismissed the U.N. experts’ findings and claimed that they were siding with an illegitimate regime led by Maduro.

Whether true or not, still, the U.N. report is a turning point, not only for Venezuela but for the credibility of international law itself. No nation should have the right to abuse their power because they're not above intentionally laws.

Justice does not depend on military power or political influence, to be done right, it should depend on law, evidence and humanity. Strong and powerful nations having been acting freely while the smaller relatively weaker nations in terms of weaponry have had to bear the consequences.

The U.S. military operations in the Caribbean have drawn concern not just for their legality but also for the risk of regional instability. They deployed guided missile destroyers, F 35 fighter jets, a nuclear submarine and over 6,000 troops and that just tells you how serious the situation has become.

Some countries are outright bullying others with their power.

Hopefully, by what the UN has started doing, it might inspire future investigations and possibly force greater transparency around military operations in international waters. For the Caribbean and Latin America, regions often overlooked in global decision making, it sends a signal that their security and sovereignty matter.

Here's a on YouTube showing the gravity of what The U.S administration did.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ro_Ep6VjimE?si=OnKv0aENsn1Sdg-m