Colombian President Gustavo Petro requested this Sunday (7) the opening of an investigation into the discovery of two bodies by the sea in a border community with Venezuela and suggested that their deaths could have been caused by American bombings in the Caribbean.
On Thursday (4), the public television channel RTVC broadcast a report on the discovery of the two bodies in a fishing community known as Puerto López and several other bodies that allegedly appeared on the Venezuelan side, without communicating the exact number of bodies or the locations where they were discovered.
“These bodies seemed to be floating in the Sea of Guajira,” Petro wrote on the social network
“They can be killed by bombing at sea,” the Colombian president said.
A police spokesperson for the department of La Guajira (north) confirmed to the AFP news agency that the bodies were found Thursday on this fishermen’s beach, but clarified that the circumstances of the deaths have not yet been determined.
Since September, U.S. armed forces have bombed approximately 21 ships in the Caribbean and Pacific allegedly linked to drug trafficking under the orders of President Donald Trump. The attacks left more than 80 dead.
Petro, in a context of growing diplomatic tensions with his American counterpart, denounces the attacks as “extrajudicial executions” and criticizes Washington’s anti-drug policy.
Trump removed Colombia from the list of allies in the fight against drug trafficking this year, saying the country was not doing enough to contain cocaine trafficking. He also imposed severe economic sanctions on Petro and some members of his family.
Eight months before leaving power, Petro considers the measures unfair and affirms that, under his government, records for drug seizures were reached.
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