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US allies and adversaries use UN meeting to critique Venezuela intervention as America defends it
Both allies and adversaries of the United States on Monday used an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to voice opposition to the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro. Before the U.N.'s most powerful body, countries critiqued — if sometimes obliquely — President Donald Trump's intervention in the South American country and his recent comments signaling the possibility of expanding military action to countries like Colombia and Mexico over drug trafficking accusations. “The inviolability of borders is not up for negotiation,” said Christina Markus Lassen, Danish ambassador to the U.N.