Colombia accuses Washington of violating its maritime space and killing fisherman

The then American president, Donald Trump, accused Nicolás Maduro of leading a vast drug trafficking organization into the United States. Venezuelan authorities vehemently deny this and claim that Washington seeks to impose regime change in Caracas and seize the country’s significant oil reserves.

The legality of attacks against suspects who are not intercepted or interrogated, in foreign or international waters, is also a matter of debate in the United States. In September, Petro called, during the UN General Assembly, for “criminal proceedings” against Trump, in response to these military attacks.

Drug submarine

On Saturday, Gustavo Petro announced that another 34-year-old Colombian citizen, who survived an American attack in October on a submarine accused by the United States of transporting drugs in the Caribbean Sea, had returned to the country.

“We welcome the Colombian arrested in the narco-submarine with satisfaction. We are happy to be alive and he will be judged according to the law,” declared the president. “He arrived with head injuries, sedated, medicated and on life support,” said Interior Minister Armando Benedetti.

Donald Trump had indicated, on Saturday, that four “narco-terrorists” were on board the submarine and that two had been killed, explaining that the two survivors should be returned to their countries of origin, Colombia and Ecuador.