Trump’s “extrajudicial executions” on the open sea are going about as well as one might expect. That is to say, not very.
Colombia is now demanding answers as to why a fishing boat adrift and sending out a distress signal was blasted out of the water, killing several on board last month. Unlike in the previous killings, there were survivors in this attack.
Source: BBC
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused the US of committing “murder” following a strike carried out on a boat in Colombian territorial waters in September.
In a social media post, Petro accused the US of violating his country’s sovereignty and killing a Colombian fisherman.
Posting on X, he said: “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure,” when it was struck. He added: “We await explanations from the US government.”
It comes after President Donald Trump said the US had struck a “drug-carrying submarine” on Thursday, killing two people.
Writing on social media, Trump said US intelligence confirmed the vessel was “loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics”.
The US president later accused the Colombian president of being “an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia”.
