BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro proposed Thursday that Qatar could serve as “mediator” so that the United States would end its military deployment in international waters off the coast of Venezuela, where it has attacked small boats it says were carrying drugs.

Petro's comments while on a trip to Brussels came a day after he said, without offering evidence, that Colombians may have been aboard the last boat the U.S. military destroyed in the Caribbean. The Trump administration has reported sinking four small boats allegedly carrying drugs.

Petro noted that Qatar is a proven mediator in tense situations, so would probably be successful in getting the United States to “cease the aggression with missiles” in the Caribbean Sea.

Qatar’s government did not immediately res

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