Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations.
00:00There are a number of important legal, international legal concepts, which the United States might have broken by capturing Maduro.
00:13And that's important to understand within the international sphere.
00:18First of all, of course, there's a violation of state sovereignty, which is contemplated in the UN Charter Article 2.
00:26There is also a different point, which is important to consider, which is the head of state immunity, by which usually a head of state is granted immunity, even if he's charged by a crime during the time that he is in power.
00:41And there is the provision of extraterritorial law enforcement, which is exactly what this case would be.
00:48It is a capture or abduction of a foreign leader in foreign soil.
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