The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, urged the United States government to respect international law on Friday after the alleged detection and destruction in the Caribbean of a boat that transported drugs.
«I said it was a murder and it is a murder anywhere in the world. If the US government does not care about the UN and international law, it does, ”he said through his account in social network X.
The president said that if the government headed by Donald Trump respects international law, “he has all my support, but if he breaks it, he plays to rebuild our collaboration.”
Petro also stressed that the collaboration of his government in the anti -branch struggle is deep, “without double morals of me, but is subject to international law.”
He emphasized that in his management, Colombia does not collaborate with murders. “In my government, proportional use of force is made, as decades of human wisdom are taught in world -approved treaties and that are part of our Constitution,” he said.
Previously, the Colombian president spoke about the video released by Trump of an American procedure carried out against a vessel supposedly from Venezuela that transported drugs to the American nation. “If this is true, it is a murder anywhere in the world,” he said last Wednesday.
In another publication, Petro shared a video demonstrating how a maritime interdiction is carried outoperation carried out by the Colombian Air Force.
For its part, the Venezuelan government questioned the veracity of the video broadcast by Trump, indicating that a critical analysis of it showed that this alleged evidence was carried out with artificial intelligence.
The sectorial vice president of communication, culture and tourism, Freddy Ñáñez, presented a series of characteristics, emanating from the AI Gemini, such as the explosion of the boat, which seems “a simplified animation, almost cartoon”, far from reality.
UN: response to drug trafficking must respect international law
The United Nations Human Rights Office said on this day that any action carried out by a State in the fight against anti -drugs must respect international law. According to the US version, in their procedure they killed 11 “narcoterrorist.”
The UN human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani declared in Geneva, Switzerland, that “in terms of drug -related crimes, so that it is clear, people should not be killed to consume, traffic, sell or possess drugs.”
He added that the fight against drug trafficking should not be carried out outside the principles of legality and that officials are responsible for fulfilling them. “To be clear, the intentional use of lethal force is only allowed as a last resort against a person who represents an imminent threat to life,” he said.
Shamdasani said that if deaths are recorded during an operation to apply the law, an investigation must be carried out independently, quickly and transparently.
