Gustavo Petro demands US release names of victims: ‘A new theatre of war has opened up: the Caribbean’
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has drawn Washington’s ire after accusing the US of killing Colombian citizens during a recent boat strike in the Caribbean Sea.
“A new theatre of war has opened up: the Caribbean,” Petro wrote on his official X account on Wednesday night.
The US has launched at least four deadly aerial attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats crossing the waterway since early September, when 11 people were killed in the first strike.
The South American country’s leftwing leader claimed there were “indications” that the most recently destroyed boat was Colombian “and had Colombians on board”.
