Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused the United States of violating his country’s sovereignty and killing a Colombian fisherman, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a military strike targeting what he described as “narcoterrorists.”
“U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Petro said in a statement on X on Saturday.
The Colombian president identified the victim as Alejandro Carranza, insisting that he had “no ties to the drug trade.”
The allegations come shortly after Trump confirmed that U.S. forces had carried out a strike in the Caribbean on Thursday against what he called “a drug-carrying submarine.”
“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.
The U.S. government has not yet responded to Colombia’s accusations.
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