Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused the US of committing “homicide” following a strike carried out on a ship in Colombian territorial waters in September.
In a social media put up, Petro accused the US of violating his nation’s sovereignty and killing a Colombian fisherman.
Posting on X, he mentioned: “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its misery sign up attributable to an engine failure,” when it was struck. He added: “We await explanations from the US authorities.”
It comes after President Donald Trump mentioned the US had struck a “drug-carrying submarine” on Thursday, killing two individuals.
Writing on social media, Trump mentioned US intelligence confirmed the vessel was “loaded up with largely Fentanyl, and different unlawful narcotics”.
The assault is a minimum of the sixth US strike on ships within the Caribbean Sea in latest weeks. It’s the first time survivors have been reported.
Writing about an earlier assault in September, Pedro wrote on X on Saturday that: “US authorities officers have dedicated a homicide and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.
“Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug commerce and his day by day exercise was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its misery sign up attributable to an engine failure.”
Alejandro Carranza was reportedly killed on 15 September when US forces allegedly fired on his boat whereas he was fishing the Caribbean.
Trump has defended the continued boat assaults, saying they’re aimed toward stemming the circulation of medication from Latin America into the US, however his authorities has not supplied proof or particulars concerning the identities of the vessels or these on board.
UN-appointed human rights consultants have described the US strikes as “extrajudicial executions”.
At the very least 27 individuals have been killed within the prior 5 boat strikes within the waters off Venezuela, in accordance with figures launched by the US administration.
Trump wrote on his Reality Social platform on Friday that the submarine focused within the newest assault was “constructed particularly for the transportation of huge quantities of medication”.
“This was not an harmless group of individuals. I do not know too many individuals who’ve submarines, and that was an assault on a drug-carrying, loaded submarine,” he mentioned, including that no US navy personnel had been injured.
The US president additionally mentioned two individuals who survived could be returned to their nations of origin, Ecuador and Colombia.
They have been transferred to a US Navy ship, a supply acquainted with the matter advised CBS Information, the BBC’s US companion.
In latest weeks, Trump has ramped up threats towards Venezuela’s management over claims that the nation is sending medicine to the US. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused Trump of attempting to make the South American nation “an American colony”.
Trump earlier advised reporters that he had authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, and that he was contemplating launching assaults on Venezuelan soil.
Narco-subs have change into a preferred technique to transport medicine as they will go largely undetected, and may be sunk after supply. They’re typically selfmade and constructed utilizing fibreglass and plywood.
The US, in addition to different coastal nations, have beforehand intercepted a few of these subs.
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