Posted on 10/19/2025 8:47:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Gustavo Petro said a U.S. strike in the Caribbean had killed a fisherman. President Trump said he would cut aid and impose new tariffs on Colombian imports.
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat that the American authorities claimed had been carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Trump to declare on Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one of Washington’s top aid recipients in Latin America, and impose new tariffs on the country’s goods.
The feuding between the two leaders reflected rising tensions in the region over the huge U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean targeting Colombia’s neighbor, Venezuela. U.S. forces have killed dozens of people in recent weeks aboard vessels that the Trump administration says were ferrying drugs from Venezuela.
The administration has provided no evidence to support the claims beyond descriptions of intelligence assessments and declassified videos of portions of the attacks. Legal specialists have called such killings illegal, because militaries cannot lawfully target civilians who do not pose a threat in the moment and are not directly participating in hostilities.
“U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Mr. Petro wrote on social media. He said the man killed in the mid-September attack, Alejandro Carranza, was a “lifelong fisherman” whose boat had experienced damage and was adrift, probably in Colombian waters, at the time of the attack. His description of Mr. Carranza and his boat could not be immediately confirmed.
Mr. Trump responded by accusing Mr. Petro of not doing enough to curb the production of illegal drugs, calling him an “illegal drug dealer” with “a fresh mouth toward America.” Mr. Trump also said that the United States would halt aid payments to Colombia, which has...
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I haven’t seen any videos of strikes against boats that were adrift. All looked pretty purposefully moving. Maybe I missed it. Or, maybe the Colombian president is lying.
Fishermen don’t use world-class ocean-going speedboats with five outboard engines to fish.
Blow the hell out of every single one of those cartel jackasses!!!
Videos would be nice rather than getting nothing more than text from the administration.
It does seem particularly odd that these boats, knowing that they will probably be blown up and kill everyone aboard, don’t simply stop. That’s why we need video. Complete video. Not just video of The boat moving but a complete array of video that would also capture the boat stopped if perhaps it stopped
Confirmation? Ay caramba! We don't need no steenking confirmation! We're the New York Slimes! He accused Trump of murder. That's good enough for us.
huh?
Here is something to ponder.
After they deliver their drugs, what do they do with the boats ?
He just wanted to be Maryland Man one day.
"Adrift" at 60 MPH?
How does this jackass even know what's happening on the ocean in the middle of the night? I think we'd know if Columbia had surveillance aircraft up - assuming they have any such in their inventory.
How much are the drug cartels paying Petro for “protection”?
How do the fish swim fast enough to get caught by a “fisherman” going that fast?
Rand Paul regrets that he has but one life to give for the drug cartels.
He is Gustavo el mentiroso.
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