Latin Times
Colombian President Gustavo Petro pinpointed the location of U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels on December 30, offering the navy’s help to locate those who jumped overboard after the attack.
“A message to all governments in the area. This seems to be the exact location where the people aboard the boat jumped overboard after their vessels were bombed. It is known that three people died, the rest survived because they jumped into the ocean. It is information gathered by our navy, which is willing to help,” Petro said in a social media publication.
Aviso a todos los gobiernos de la zona. Está parece ser la zona exacta donde cayeron los lancheros que se arrojaron de embarcaciones que fueron bombardeadas.
Se sabe que tres personas murieron, el resto quedó viva porque se arrojaron al mar.
Información conseguida por nuestra… pic.twitter.com/Xj5oJo2AcD
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) January 2, 2026
It is unclear how many people survived the strikes and their fate ever since. The attacks, along with others announced hours later, elevated the campaign’s toll to 115.
There have now been at least 34 strikes against alleged drug boats since the campaign began in September.
The Trump administration has told Congress it considers itself to be in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels and has labeled those killed as “unlawful combatants,” citing a classified Justice Department finding that it says permits lethal action without judicial review, as CNN explains.
The Trump administration is also escalating pressure against the Nicolas Maduro regime on two other fronts. One is the blockade of sanctioned tankers, which has led the regime to shut oil wells as it runs out of storage facility.
The other is an attack on what has been described as a remote dock in the Venezuelan coast used to load drugs onto vessels that would then journey through the Caribbean.
Originally published on Latin Times
