<h1>U.S. warships deployed near Venezuela raise legal questions on terrorism designations, military law-enforcement use, jurisdiction and sovereignty</h1> The U.S. is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to waters near Venezuela to support counter-narcotics operations directed by the U.S. president, who has pursued military options and designated several Latin American criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations. The designations and expanded rewards for arrest, plus an indictment of Venezuela's leader in U.S. federal court, raise legal tensions regarding scope of terrorism statutes, use of military assets for law enforcement, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and state sovereignty. Mexico's president has rejected U.S. military intervention, underscoring diplomatic and international-law constraints.