Colombian President Gustavo Petro tells CBB News Busting drug boats is easy, but illegal and ineffective

Left-wing Colombian President Gustavo Petroque has been referred to his US military raids on what the Trump Administrations say are drug-trafficking boats in international waters. Petro conducts light strikes, but they are ineffective in tackling the larger problem of drug trafficking – and it’s illegal to boot.

The Trump administration has announced at least two such strikes on boats in the past two months, including ships off the Pacific coast this week. The latest occurred last night, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US had carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” on a container he said was used by the Tren de Aragua Gang, “narcotics traffickers through the Caribbean Sea.”

Hegseth said “Six Norco terrorists got inside the ship during the strike, which was carried out in foreign waters – and it was the first strike of the night.” All six terrorists were killed in the strike. “

Without announcing the strikes, the US military and the Trump Administration have given almost no details on how they are carried out, based on the severity, or who has been killed.

In an exclusive interview with CBS news, Petro said that some of those killed in the US strikes have been innocent civilians, and he repeated his accusation that these attacks violate international law.

The White House denies those agencies, and President Trump has defended the strikes as a legitimate part of his fight against drug cartels.

Asked if he is ready to lower the tone of Rhetolory in his war of words with Mr. Trump, looking for a way to attack our boats, Petro insisted that he was just responding to the American leader with kindness.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says that almost 90% of the cocaine that reaches the US comes from Colombia, and President Trump has helped Petro, saying that he failed to make the drug cartels operating in his country.

“They scared me,” he told CBS News. “And a lot, but what I can do is not interesting.”

“Colombia has been a drug den,” President Trump said recently. “You have a powerful leader there. He’s a bad guy, a thug, but he’s doing cocaine at levels he won’t see.”

Mr Trump is right to note that cocaine production in Colombia has increased in recent years. But Petro said the issue should be addressed as a collaborative effort, not a rare sneak attack. He said he would welcome Mr. Trump in his presidential palace for an interview, and he was embarrassed when Colombia did not have a warning about the US Drikes.

“We don’t even know” they’re going to happen, he told CBS News. “Nothing. We don’t know if they had cocaine.”

Petro said to launch missiles on small boats carrying a few people, and noted that at least 37 people were killed in the US – before Herseth’s announcement on Friday that six terrorists were shocked.

Petro does not say that people are killed by boat smugglers, he says that they are people who work for merchants

“Killing corporate employees is easy,” he said. “But if you want to be effective, you have to capture business executives.”

He said large shipments should be targeted, not small smuggling boats.

This week, President Trunga said his war on drugs could soon be over, and on Thursday, two US B-1 bombers went down near Venezuela.

Petro told CBS news that he hoped that the US activities would cross the borders of Colombia, and he warned that any movement could lead to more violence by encouraging more people to join dynamic groups.

“I was a distraction myself,” he said. “I am not threatening, but anyone who has studied the history of Colombia for two centuries will know that when farmers are attacked, they look for weapons.”

“It’s better to talk instead,” urged President Trump, who has threatened to freeze all aid to Colombia.

Petros said if that happens, his government will be able to fill the financial gaps, and he’s not losing sleep over the Trump Adminifst’s tax threats, either.