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Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered his nation's information forces Tuesday (November 11, 2025) to halt sharing quality with the United States, until the Trump medication stops its strikes connected suspected cause traffickers successful the Caribbean, arsenic relations deteriorate betwixt the nations that were erstwhile adjacent partners successful the combat against cause trafficking.
In a connection connected X, Mr. Petro wrote that Colombia's subject indispensable instantly ends “communications and different agreements with U.S. information agencies" until the U.S. ceases its attacks connected speedboats suspected of carrying drugs, that critics person likened to extrajudicial executions.
Se da orden a todos los niveles de la inteligencia de la fuerza pública suspender envío de comunicaciones y otros tratos con agencias de seguridad estadounidenses. Tal medida se mantendrá mientras se mantenga el ataque con misiles a lanchas en el Caribe. La lucha contra las… https://t.co/IZRWiL4s6t
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 11, 2025Mr. Petro wrote that “the combat against drugs indispensable beryllium subordinated to the quality rights of the Caribbean people.” It wasn't instantly wide what benignant of accusation Colombia volition halt sharing with the United States.
At slightest 75 radical person been killed by the U.S. subject successful strikes successful planetary waters since August, according to figures supplied by the Trump administration. The strikes began successful the confederate Caribbean but person shifted precocious to the eastbound Pacific, wherever the U.S. has targeted boats disconnected Mexico.
Mr. Petro has called for U.S. President Donald Trump to beryllium investigated for warfare crimes implicit the strikes, which person affected citizens of Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. In October, the Trump medication placed fiscal sanctions connected Petro and members of his family, implicit accusations of engagement successful the planetary cause trade.
Mr. Petro “has allowed cause cartels to flourish and refused to halt this activity,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said successful a connection aft the sanctions were issued October 24. “President Trump is taking beardown enactment to support our federation and marque wide that we volition not tolerate the trafficking of drugs into our nation.”
The White House had nary contiguous effect to Mr. Petro's latest statements.
