The Trump administration's military strikes on suspected drug vessels circumvented the ethical and legal safeguards of the Drug Enforcement Administration

Body of rules, treaties, and customary norms governing relations between sovereign states and other international actors. Provides the legal framework for diplomacy, armed conflict, trade, human rights, and the functioning of international institutions — enforced through courts, arbitration, and state compliance.

A U.S. military campaign of lethal strikes against vessels suspected of trafficking narcotics in Latin American and Caribbean waters, which human-rights organisations describe as extrajudicial killings and which the U.S. government has not always supported with publicly released evidence.

Transnational criminal networks and cartels, including their trafficking, financial and resource-extraction activities and international efforts to counter them.