"The U.S. invasion of Venezuela that overthrew President Nicolas Maduro was one of the most egregious violations of international law in recent memory. The illegality of the invasion is plain enough to anyone who doesn't subscribe to the Baddie Exception to international law and norms, which supposedly can be overcome by calling some leader a Baddie. But it doesn't work that way. Calling a foreign leader a Baddie is not a permission slip to unilaterally violate a state's national sovereignty."
"If Trump cared about drug trafficking, he wouldn't have pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving 45 years in prisong after being convicted of conspiring to distribute 400 tons of cocaine in the U.S. If Trump cared about drug trafficking, he wouldn't have pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after founding a black market website on which more than $200 million worth of illegal drugs were sold."
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela overthrew President Nicolas Maduro and represented a clear violation of international law. The claim that labeling a leader a "Baddie" permits unilateral intervention undermines a rules-based global order and cannot be reconciled with equal application of sovereignty. The coup's framing as a drug-trafficking response is implausible given recent presidential pardons and policy choices. Examples include pardons for Juan Orlando Hernandez and Ross Ulbricht, failures to prosecute major drug-related actors, and governmental involvement with cryptocurrency, which can facilitate money laundering for traffickers. Provocations, including violent incidents and seizures, aimed to elicit a response from Maduro.
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