Caribbean-Amer­i­can De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Con­gress­woman Yvette D. Clarke on Sat­ur­day strong­ly con­demned what she de­scribed as Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s “unau­tho­rized” mil­i­tary strikes in Venezuela and the mil­i­tary’s cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

Clarke, the daugh­ter of Ja­maican im­mi­grants, who rep­re­sents the 9th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict in Brook­lyn, New York, told the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC) that Trump act­ed with­out con­gres­sion­al au­tho­riza­tion in con­duct­ing mil­i­tary strikes in Venezuela, and force­ful­ly and uni­lat­er­al­ly caus­ing “regime change by seiz­ing Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

“In a brazen af­front to the rule of law and the US Con­sti­tu­tion and with­out any ra­tio­nal con­sid­er­a­tion of the grave con­se­quences that will in­evitably fol­low, in the dead of night, Don­ald Trump has plunged the Unit­ed States in­to yet an­oth­er dan­ger­ous for­eign en­tan­gle­ment by un­leash­ing di­rect mil­i­tary strikes up­on Venezuela’s cap­i­tal and cap­tur­ing Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and his wife,” said Clarke, who al­so chairs the Con­gres­sion­al Black Cau­cus (CBC).