Gustavo Petro told the BBC that “there is no need to kill anyone” in the efforts to repress drug smuggler.
The United States air attacks against the alleged boats for drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea are a “act of tyranny”, the Colombian president Gustavo Petro told the BBC.
The Colombian president said that there should be criminal proceedings against the US authorities if the investigations reveal that the Colombians were killed in the attacks.
The president of the United States Donald Trump has classified the attacks, who presumably killed 17 people since they started this month, as necessary to stop the flow of Fenanil and other illegal narcotics for the United States.
However, experts and legal legislators ask themselves if the attacks would not have violated international laws on human rights.
“Why launch a missile if you can simply stop the boat and stop the crew?” Petro said. “This is what would be called murder.”
Speaking with the BBC Wednesday (24/9), Petro said there should not be “deaths” when the mobile waters are believed to be involved in drug trafficking.
“We have a long history of collaboration with the US agencies and other agencies in conducting cocaine sea convulsions,” he said. “Nobody has ever died before. No need to kill anyone.”
He added that the principle of proportionality of the force is violated “if you use something beyond a gun”.
The attacks in international waters focused mainly on Venezuela, according to the Trump government. The United States provided few details on the objectives and people dead and their relationships that members of the Aragua Tren’s band were in the first wholesale boat are disputed.
Democratic parliamentarians in Washington asked for answers to the White House on the legality of attacks, which United Nations experts described as extrajudicial executions.
As a question about Petro’s comments, the White House said that Trump is “ready to use all the elements of American power to prevent drugs from flooding our country and guiding those responsible for justice”.
In the interview, held in New York, where the dignitaries around the world met for a united Nations meeting, Petro also accused the Trump government of humiliation of his people and said that South American nations like his non “bow to the king”.
After returning to office in January, Trump has hardened his speech, as well as his commercial policies, throughout Latin America, began an important expulsion operation of people who, said, illegally crossed the border with the southern United States.
Trump has also designated several drug trafficking organizations and criminal groups in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America such as terrorist organizations.
In addition to the Aragua Tren, Trump aimed at the Sobs cartel, a group that the United States claim to be guided by the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and other high -cut Venezuelan authorities, some of which of the country’s military or intelligence services.
The American army has mobilized to increase their military forces in the southern Caribbean in the last two months, with shipping ships and thousands of US sailors and sailors.
Petro has been in conflict with Trump on several occasions. When asked if he was now in danger of further isolating his country, Petro said that Trump was to isolate the United States with his foreign policy.
“Trump has already insulted me during a presidential campaign, he called me a terrorist,” he said.
Source: Terra

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