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The strikes on September 2 and September 16 killed 14 people in total, with UN experts labelling them “extrajudicial executions."

Trump dismissed the allegations, defending the operations as part of a U.S. crackdown on narcotics, even as Venezuela warned of constitutional measures to defend its sovereignty amid the largest U.S. naval deployment in years.

While addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro urged that a “criminal process” be initiated against United States President Donald Trump for U.S. strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.

Petro claimed that “poor young people” who were unarmed died in the strikes that Washington said were part of a US anti-drug operation off the coast of Vene

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