Donald Trump must face criminal proceedings for deadly strikes carried out on drug smuggler boats in the Caribbean, UN is told
Colombia President Gustavo Petro demanded criminal proceedings against Donald Trump for a number of deadly strikes on the Caribbean boats, and insisted that passengers were poor young men instead of members of a bad gang.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Petro condemned three attacks against the White House as an operation against drug smugglers. He accused the former president of accusing poverty and migration.
He said: ‘Even if it contains the highest level of authority to give the order, criminal proceedings should be opened against the US authorities: President Trump.’
Authorized, after the first attack of the passengers killed in strikes, as the Trump administration claims that Venezuela’s train is not a member of the Aragua gang, he added.
Petro said that the passengers are poor young people who have no choice other than Latin America ‘.
Later, in an interview with the BBC, he called the strikes a ‘action of persecution’ and questioned the US methods.
Neden Why do you throw a missile if you can stop the boat and arrest the crew, ”he asked. Someone would say murder. ‘
‘We have a long history to cooperate with American agencies and other agencies, “he said. No one has died before. No need to kill anyone. ‘
Colombia condemned a series of fatal strikes on the boats in the Caribbean, insisted that passengers were poor young men rather than members of a bad gang.
This was the third ship attacked by the United States. Colombia President insisted that he did not carry drug smugglers
Petro’s UN’s words came immediately after he announced that Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s government has prepared constitutional decrees to defend the country in the event of a ‘attack’ from the US forces.
A few details of the strikes have been made public. First, he killed 11 people on September 2, according to Washington.
Authorities, the ship and the targeted on September 16, said that he left Venezuela.
Three people died in the second strike, a third boat was shot on Friday and three more died.
The Trump administration has not explained how the cargo of boats are evaluated or how the passengers are linked to criminal groups.
National Security officials later told the Congress that the first ship was fired after changing the course and returned to the shore.
They said that the missiles in the Caribbean were used to stop drug trafficking. This is a lie mentioned here in this very rostrum, ‘Petro, Trump’s previous speech is a direct response to something that seems to be.
Was it really necessary to bomb unarmed, poor young people in the Caribbean? ‘
Colombia President Gustavo Petro speaks at the UN General Assembly. He demanded a criminal case against Donald Trump about strikes
Maduro accused Washington of using drug allegations as a cover for a military operation designed to overthrow the government.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party members questioned the Trump administration on the legality of strikes defined by the UN as unjustified executions.
In the interview, Petro claimed that the US leader humiliated his people and insisted that countries like him would ‘bend the king’.
Trump and Petro swap the thorns in recent months. In a presidential memorandum that Washington said that he could not fulfill his anti -drug commitments of Colombia, Trump said: ‘The fact that Colombia could not fulfill his drug control obligations last year is based only on his political leadership.’
Petro hit the US decision: ‘This is a deep insult to a society that has shed the most blood for the US and Europe to consume less cocaine, and frankly an insult to my own life.
The tense relationship between the two leaders was seen as a threat to the remaining allies of their country.
Colombia has received billions of dollars from the United States since the presidency of Clinton.
After returning to the White House earlier this year, Trump hardened his stance on illegal migration from Latin America and said he would compress the drugs from the region to the US.
Trump rides a presidential plane in New Jersey on September 14th. He defended strikes as he defended as an operation against drug smugglers
In addition, several drug trafficking unions as terrorist organizations determined.
In recent weeks, Washington strengthened its presence in the South Caribbean and used thousands of sea and sailors as well as additional warships to the region.
Petro, the first left -wing president of Colombia, restored diplomatic ties with Venezuela after he started to work in 2022.
