Now that the United States claims legal justification for attacking what it says are Venezuelan drug runners in the Caribbean, one hot question is whether something bigger against President Nicolas Maduro is afoot.

The United States is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels, President Donald Trump said last week in a letter to Congress to provide legal underpinning for at least four strikes by US naval warships in international waters that have killed at least 21 people in recent weeks.

However, some lawmakers question whether such attacks are in fact legal.

US media have reported the existence of a Justice Department memo, which says agencies like the CIA could even be used against the Maduro government. This would smack of a time in the past when the United States worked to undermine o

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