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Video and reporting show the U.S. military struck small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific in September–December 2025 after labeling some targets as drug-smuggling vessels; those strikes have ...
Congress has been notified and probed strikes but offered limited new constraints: President Trump formally notified Congress on Oct. 1, 2025 that the U.S. was in a “non‑international armed conflict” ...
The U.S. has used lethal drone and airstrike authority overseas that in at least one well‑known instance killed an American citizen, Anwar al‑Awlaki, in 2011; courts dismissed lawsuits challenging tha...
Documented reporting shows multiple U.S. strikes on boats since early September 2025 that the government says were drug-smuggling vessels; journalists and rights groups report civilian deaths and at l...
A cluster of high‑profile international awards and compensation claims against Venezuela remained effectively unresolved through 2025, most notably multi‑billion‑dollar investor‑state arbitration awar...
No public criminal prosecutions or military courts related to alleged war crimes by Pete Hegseth for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan are reported in the available sources; current formal probes focus o...
U.S. strikes on small vessels linked to Venezuela have killed at least 83–87 people in 21–22 operations since September, and a high-profile case — the September strikes that killed a Colombian fisherm...
Video released by the White House and shared by President Trump on Sept. 15 was described by U.S. officials as showing a targeted boat “not moving in the water,” and the Sept. 15 strike is the inciden...
Available reporting says a U.S. strike on a boat on or around 15 September 2025 killed at least one Colombian fisherman, Alejandro Andrés Carranza, whose family and Colombia’s president say the vessel...
Venezuela’s highest court and the comptroller have justified long-term political disqualifications of María Corina Machado and other opposition figures by citing administrative and alleged criminal li...
Yes — multiple instances since 2018 in which international election observation was constrained, disinvited, blocked or politicized in Venezuela have been documented: the 2018 presidential contest saw...
A wide body of international reporting and official investigations conclude that Nicolás Maduro’s government has overseen widespread and severe human rights violations—including arbitrary detentions, ...
The preponderance of international reporting and major rights organizations finds that the Maduro government and state security forces have committed serious human rights violations, including pattern...
Victims of unlawful maritime strikes have a mix of legal and political pathways for redress — from state‑level criminal and civil proceedings to international human‑rights and inter‑state dispute mech...
U.S. courts have shown extreme reluctance to second‑guess the executive on use of force at sea, and so far available reporting says legal challenges to recent U.S. strikes on suspected drug vessels fa...
Venezuelan authorities and regional NGOs have both issued public statements on prisoner releases: the Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has repeatedly urged immediate, unconditional re...
Brazil faces that cluster around excessive police violence, a crisis in the prison system, and structural discrimination against Indigenous, Afro‑Descendant (Quilombola) and other marginalized communi...
Courts, human-rights groups, and policy analyses show that asylum seekers and other noncitizens face a fragmented set of rights and detention standards that vary sharply by country and by agency, with...
Undocumented immigrants in the United States have enforceable legal protections under U.S. constitutional law and recognized international human rights frameworks, but the scope and enforcement of tho...
Undocumented people possess a set of under domestic and international frameworks, but those rights are contested in practice and frequently subject to enforcement discretion, policy shifts, and litiga...