Colombia’s president accused, on Saturday, Washington of violating his country’s sovereignty and killing a fisherman, shortly after U.S. leader Donald Trump confirmed that U.S. forces carried out another strike in his military campaign against “narcoterrorists.”
Trump has waged an unprecedented military campaign that he says is aimed at choking the flow of drugs from Latin America to the United States.
Washington says its operations have dealt a decisive blow to drug trafficking, but it has provided no evidence that the people killed — at least 27 so far — were drug smugglers.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on X that “U.S. government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in our territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to drug trafficker