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Bogotá,.- The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, urged this Friday the families of the victims of attacks by the United States on boats that supposedly transport illegal drugs to that country to "associate" and assured that these actions break the universal legal principle of proportionality.
"Launching missiles when they can be intercepted as Colombia does, breaks the universal legal principle of proportionality, therefore, it is a murder. The families of these young people should associate", Petro wrote on his X account.
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The position of the leader is known after the United States sank another boat today in international waters near Venezuela, according to the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who indicated that four people died on board and accused them of being "narco-terrorists". In that context, Petro insisted that "no narcoterrorists" are on those vessels and reiterated that drug traffickers live in the United States, Europe, and Dubai. The sinking of the vessel adds to at least four other attacks that the United States has carried out since September against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, three of them near Venezuela and another near the Dominican Republic. The United States' military deployment in the Caribbean, under the argument of combating drug trafficking, has been criticized by the government of Nicolás Maduro, who considers it a threat of a possible attack against Venezuela. On September 15th, Petro called the attack with which the U.S. sank a second boat in the Caribbean Sea, allegedly carrying three Venezuelan drug traffickers, an "assassination".
