On Saturday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the United States of violating his country’s maritime sovereignty and killing a fisherman in the Caribbean Sea as part of a U.S. military campaign that Washington claims targets drug traffickers.
The leftist president stated on X, “Officials from the U.S. government committed an assassination and violated the sovereignty of our territorial waters.”
He added, “Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to drug trafficking—his daily activity was fishing,” referring to a Colombian man reportedly killed in September during a U.S. military strike on his boat.
