The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, reported the seizure of 7.5 tons of drugs “without deaths,” which was considered a direct blow to the United States Government, which has murdered dozens of people in alleged operations against drug trafficking in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
“Colombia helps seize 7.1 tons of cocaine on sea and land without deaths,” wrote the New Granada president on his account on the social network X, where he specified that this procedure was in collaboration with the French authorities in the Atlantic Ocean.
Likewise, he said that in another Army operation in Arauca, in Cravo Norte, the seizure of 400 kilos of cocaine was achieved, for a total of 7.5 tons seized in both procedures.
“With this operation, six individuals of unknown nationality and 7.5 tons of cocaine are captured, one of the largest days of seizures in my government, with the collaboration of our public force and the French authorities,” the post indicated.
Colombia helps seize 7.5 tons of cocaine at sea and land without deaths
On Thursday, with the help of naval intelligence, a seizure of 7.1 tons of cocaine was achieved with French authorities in the Atlantic Ocean, in conjunction with a land operation by…
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 7, 2025
It should be noted that this announcement by the Colombian president was made hours after the US reported a new operation in the Caribbean, where at least three more people lost their lives.
«Today, by order of the president [Donald] Trump, the War Department carried out a lethal kinetic attack against a ship operated by a designated terrorist organization,” wrote US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in X.
In this way, this new attack joins the list of those carried out arbitrarily by the Trump administration, an act that has been rejected by several countries, including the US Congress and Senate.
Venezuela has repeatedly denounced that these actions carried out by the United States, under the supposed argument of fighting drug trafficking, have the background of creating a scenario to justify a military invasion against its territory to seize its natural resources.
This Friday, the sector vice president of Politics, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, spoke in the same line as the Colombian president by ensuring that so far this year, Venezuela’s security agencies have seized 64 tons of drugs. without bombing or murdering to no person.
