The war against drug trafficking that has been launched Donald Trump In the Caribbean it is not limited only to Venezuela and the vessels that set sail from its coasts. The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrohas assured that the last drug boat bombed by the US Army had Colombian citizens on board.
The Republican president announced that the last attack against an alleged drug boat was recorded last Saturday, although the Pentagon has not yet confirmed said operation.
Petro denounced Trump for open a “war theater” in the Caribbean by killing more than twenty people with the bombings and revealed that there are “indications” that the last sunken vessel was Colombian. The White House has rejected these claims, although two US Administration sources cited by The New York Times they confirm it.
Petro shared on his block President Donald Trump’s use of the Armed Forces “to carry out attacks against vessels in the Caribbean Sea.” However, Republicans defeated the initiative in the Senate by 51 votes to 48.
“Now I am in a meeting with European governments and I will say the same thing. A new theater of war has opened: the Caribbean,” Petro said from Brussels, adding: “Indications show that the last bombed boat was a Colombian one with Colombian citizens inside. I hope their families appear and report“.
The White House, according to Reutershas asked Petro for a rectification for his “unfounded statement”.
At the end of August, the Trump Administration began a broad military deployment in the Caribbean with the argument of combating drug trafficking, an operation strongly criticized by Petro and the Government of Nicolas Madurowhich considers it a threat and a possible prelude to an attack against Venezuela. The Republican president gave the order last week to break diplomatic relations with Caracas.
Trump justified the operation by declaring that the country is in a “non-international armed conflict” against drug cartels, which it considers terrorist organizations.
In recent months, Petro has raised his tone with Trump due to differences over immigration policy, the fight against drugs and Washington’s support for Israel, tensions that materialized at the end of September with the US decision to revoke his visa.
At that time, at the opening of the eightieth session of the UN General Assembly, the Colombian president said that the war on drugs was actually a strategy of the powerful who “need violence to dominate Colombia and Latin America.”
“There is no war against smuggling, There is a war for oil and it must be stopped by the world. The aggression is against all of Latin America and the Caribbean,” he concluded in his message.