US EditionWhat Maduro's abduction and Trump’s pressure on Nigeria reveal about the international legal order, By Seun Bakare
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Immediately after celebrating New Year's Eve with a guest of honor Benjamin Netanyahu, on whom depends the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Donald Trump militarily assaulted Venezuela and had its president kidnapped: a double rubbing on international law, to which the US President does not recognize any value. It is not a novelty for the US that, regardless of the political membership…
What Maduro's abduction and Trump’s pressure on Nigeria reveal about the international legal order, By Seun Bakare
Taken together, Venezuela and Nigeria point to a troubling pattern. International law is increasingly shaped, not by agreed pathways, but by acts that succeed and then justify themselves after the fact. Practice accumulates. Repetition breeds acceptance. What begins as exception hardens into precedent… This is not an argument against accountability. It is an argument against […] The post What Maduro’s abduction and Trump’s pressure on Nigeria re…
The operation carried out by US special forces to detain Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife has raised a number of difficult legal issues for the international community. Although Maduro was already on trial in Manhattan on January 5, 2026, the legality of his capture during the night raid remains a matter of intense debate between human rights activists, the UN and the Donald Trump administration. According to Bloomberg, this case…
TUC condemns Trump’s attack on Venezuela
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro. The TUC said: ‘The TUC joins the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and ITUC-Americas in expressing our “absolute and unequivocal rejection” of the US military attack in Venezuela, and the […]
The kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro by the US is likely a violation of international law, experts DW spoke to said. Venezuela's controversial president Ni
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