Colombia's Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that the vessel in the latest attack in the Caribbean by U.S. forces was Colombian and that Colombian nationals were on board. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Colombian President Gustavo Petro has claimed that Colombians were aboard the most recent boat to be attacked by the United States in the Caribbean.
Washington has said strikes on four vessels in recent weeks that killed 21 people were aimed at "narco-traffickers," but Petro said in a post on X regarding an attack off Venezuela on Oct. 3 that the boat was Colombian, warning that the Caribbean had become the latest theater of war.
"Indications show that the last boat bombed was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside it. I hope their families come forward and report it. There is no war against smuggling; there is a war for oil and it must be stopped by the world," Petro wrote Wednesday.
He alleged that what he termed "aggression" was directed at all of Latin America and the Caribbean.
