Senators introduce new resolution to block Trump's attacks against Venezuela

Washington.- A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a new resolution this Wednesday to block attacks by President Donald Trump against Venezuela given the president's insistence that the ground offensive will begin "very soon".

The four senators leading the initiative - Democrats Chuck Schumer, Tim Kaine, and Adam Schiff and Republican Rand Paul - have already presented a resolution along these lines, but it was blocked by the majority of Republicans in the Upper House.

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Kaine and Schiff also led a measure against attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats that the Trump Administration developed in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters, which also failed to go further.

This time, lawmakers introduced a war powers resolution, a 1973 federal law designed to limit the ability of the U.S. president to enter a war without the consent of Congress, to whom the Constitution expressly grants the power to declare war.

This type of resolutions have a "priority character", as explained by the senators in a joint statement, and may be put to a vote within 10 days. "The American people do not want to be dragged into an endless war with Venezuela without a public debate or a vote," said Republican Rand Paul. Added: "We must defend what the Constitution demands: deliberate before going to war." "Since the founding of our Republic, the Constitution has granted a clear and exclusive power to Congress: the power to declare war. Let's be clear: Congress has not declared war on Venezuela," said Democrat Schumer, leader of the minority in the Senate. And he added: "There is nothing 'America First' about sending American troops into harm's way for a mission the Administration cannot justify, cannot explain, and has no legal authority to initiate." After the military campaign under the pretext of ending the entry of drugs by sea into the United States, which according to Trump has been reduced "by 91%", the president warned that "very soon" they will begin the offensive against land targets. The Pentagon confirmed this week that 21 bombings have been carried out against alleged drug trafficking boats, which have left 82 crew members dead in the southern Caribbean and the eastern Pacific as part of its strategy to combat drug trafficking.