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Colombia's Petro says last vessel bombed by US was Colombian
President Gustavo Petro asserted the U.S. strike killed three Colombians aboard the vessel and accused Washington of aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean.
- On Wednesday, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said `Indications show that the last boat bombed was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside of it` in Bogota on X.
- A series of strikes has targeted drug-trafficking vessels off Venezuela, with at least four attacks in recent weeks killing 21 people, U.S. President Donald Trump announced.
- The White House rebuffed Petro's claim, saying it denied the assertion and urged retraction to restore dialogue; U.S. officials have not identified who was aboard the boat.
- The attacks have inflamed tensions, leading Washington to call off diplomatic outreach to Venezuela on Monday while Venezuela launched military exercises in La Guaira and Carabobo.
- If verified, Petro's claim would draw Colombia into a campaign that had previously targeted Venezuelan boats amid a United States military deployment of seven warships, a nuclear-powered submarine and F-35 fighters.
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The most recent ship attacked by the United States off Venezuela has been Colombian, according to Colombian information.
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On Wednesday night, several Colombian media received an unofficial communiqué from the White House announcing that Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has been asked to retract his claims “unsubstantiated and reprehensible.” The text refers to a message that the head of state shared on his social networks in which he states that in the last bombing of a Caribbean boat there were Colombian citizens. Washington, in this and other boat attacks nea…
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Leaning Left14Leaning Right7Center16Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Center
Bias Distribution
- 43% of the sources are Center
43% Center
L 38%
C 43%
R 19%
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