Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused the US of committing “murder” following a strike carried out on a boat in Colombian territorial waters in September.
Posting on X, he said: “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure,” when it was struck.
It comes after President Donald Trump said the US had struck a “drug-carrying submarine” on Thursday, killing two people.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused Trump of trying to make the South American nation “an American colony”.
Ecuador’s president, Gustavo Petro, has accused the United States of “murder” after a strike on a boat in Colombian waters in September.
Petro accused the United States of killing a Colombian fisherman and violating his nation’s sovereignty in a social media post.
“The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure,” he wrote in a post on X at the time of the impact. He went on: “We are awaiting the US government’s explanations. “.
This follows President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States killed two people when it struck a “drug-carrying submarine” on Thursday.
Trump claimed on social media that the ship was “loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics,” as confirmed by US intelligence.
In recent weeks, the US has attacked ships in the Caribbean Sea at least six times. Survivors have never been reported before.
“US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Pedro wrote on X on Saturday, referring to a previous September attack.
Alejandro Carranza was a fisherman who lived his life fishing and had no connection to the drug trade. The Colombian boat’s engine failed, causing it to become adrift and activate its distress signal. “.”.
When Alejandro Carranza was fishing in the Caribbean on September 15, US forces allegedly opened fire on his boat, killing him.
Trump’s administration has not offered proof or information regarding the identities of the boats or the people on board, despite his defense of the ongoing boat attacks, which he claims are intended to stop the flow of drugs into the US from Latin America.
“Extrajudicial executions” is how UN-appointed human rights experts have characterized the US strikes.
The U.S. administration released figures showing that the previous five boat strikes in the waters off Venezuela killed at least 27 people.
The last attack’s target submarine was “built specifically for the transportation of massive amounts of drugs,” according to a post made by Trump on his Truth Social platform on Friday.
“This group of individuals was not innocent. “I don’t know many people who own submarines, and that was an attack on a loaded, drug-carrying submarine,” he said, noting that no US military personnel had been hurt.
Additionally, the US president announced that two survivors would be sent back to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia.
The BBC’s US partner, CBS News, was informed by a source with knowledge of the situation that they were moved to a US Navy ship.
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Trump’s threats against Venezuela’s leadership have increased in recent weeks due to allegations that the nation is supplying the US with drugs. Trump has been accused by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of attempting to turn the South American country into “an American colony”.
Prior to this, Trump told reporters that he was thinking about attacking Venezuela and that he had given the CIA permission to carry out secret operations there.
Due to their ability to travel mainly unnoticed and sink after delivery, narco-subs have grown in popularity as a means of drug transportation. They are frequently made at home with plywood and fiberglass.
Some of these submarines have been intercepted by the US and other coastal countries in the past.
