THE COLLAPSE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: THE US VS VENEZUELA
By Martha L. Schmidt, LL.M., J.D.

US aggression since September 2025 focusing on Venezuela has to be seen as part of a larger scheme. It
has become increasingly clear that Trump and the manipulator of his Western Hemispheric military and
economic policy, Marco Rubio, intend to create chaos and terror in the Americas in defiance of well-
established principles of international law. In order to complete their imperial plan for the region, they
are taking on the country with the largest oil reserves in the world and a country which had the fastest
growing GDP in the hemisphere last year (according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean). This aggression serves to remind the world of the US failure to address its role in global
warming and the centrality of US militarism and war in accelerating human rights and environmental
crises.

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