• Sea sick: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the Trump administration of murdering an innocent fisherman during one of the military attacks on boats the U.S. claimed are carrying drugs into the country. Petro said the man, Alejandro Carranza, was a “lifelong fisherman” who was killed in an attack in mid-September when his damaged boat was adrift in Colombian waters. Trump responded by halting U.S. aid payments to Colombia. The Trump administration has acknowledged killing 32 people across at least seven military strikes on boats since early September, including one over the weekend that killed three people. The administration has provided no evidence for its claims that the boats carry “narcoterrorists,” and a broad range of legal experts say the extrajudicial killings by the U.S.

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