US strike on boat in Caribbean may have killed Colombians, Petro says
Colombian president writes that a ‘new front in the war has opened’ in the Caribbean, prompting the White House to demand a public retraction
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday there were “signs” that Colombian citizens were killed in the last small boat attacked by the US military off the coast of Venezuela.
“A new front in the war has opened: the Caribbean,” Petro wrote on the social platform X. “Signs show that the last bombed boat was Colombian with Colombian citizens aboard.”
He did not provide any explanation for what those signs were. “I hope that their families come forward and report it,” he added.
Neither Petro’s office nor Colombia’s Defence Ministry responded immediately to requests for additional information.
The White House rebuffed Petro’s comments.