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January 05, 2026
What legal questions are raised by the U.S. invasion of Venezuela and its capture of President Maduro and his wife? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with international law professor Mary Ellen O'Connell.
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January 05, 2026
Similarly, Mary Ellen O'Connell, a professor at 91勛圖 Law School in the US state of Indiana, spoke of a kidnapping. "The United Nations Charter makes it very clear that there are very few times when a country has the right to carry out military force on the territory of another country," O'Connell told NBC. "And it never has the right to do that in order to bring an individual out to stand trial before their courts."