US EditionColombia's president criticizes 'barbarian' Trump over boat attacks
President Gustavo Petro halted intelligence cooperation to protest 19 lethal U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats, which have killed at least 76 people, citing human rights violations.
- Arguing on humanitarian grounds, Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, said `intelligence is not for killing` and that sharing it would mean collaborating with a crime against humanity, noting `Maybe, or maybe not. They are poor boatmen hired by gangsters. The gangsters don't sit on the boats.`
- U.S. officials defended the strikes as protecting U.S. interests while lawmakers said the Trump administration provided no evidence and pressed for legal justification.
- At least 19 strikes have been reported, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted images on Nov. 6; the United Kingdom government stopped sharing intelligence, and Jean-Noel Barrot said the strikes violate international law.
- Tensions have risen in recent weeks as the United States sent an aircraft carrier and authorized CIA operations, while Petro urged the United Nations to open criminal proceedings and faced visa revocation in September.
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Gustavo Petro said that the US president's actions don't help stop drug traffickers Colombian President Gustavo Petro has denounced the US strikes on alleged cartel vessels in the Caribbean Sea as the Pentagon announced a new operation to fight drug traffickers. Colombia has historically cooperated with the US on security matters, particularly in dealing with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government and fighting drug trafficking, althoug…
While the fourth summit was taking place in Santa Marta between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and the European Union (EU), a few kilometers away, in several cities on the Colombian Caribbean coast, fishermen spent the day with fear of their backs. On Friday, just two days before the official beginning of the summit, US military attacked a supposed narco-lancha, bringing to 20 such bombings and about 70 deaths.
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Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, ordered “suspension of communications and other dealings with U.S. security agencies,” until the country’s attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in Caribbean and Pacific waters cease. “All levels of law enforcement intelligence are ordered to suspend communications and other dealings with U.S. security agencies,” Petro wrote in X. The president explained that “such a measure will continue as long as the m…
The Colombian Interior Minister said the president’s statements were “misinterpreted” by the local press, despite the explicit statement
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