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Colombia’s Petro urges ‘criminal trial’ against Trump for Venezuelan strikes
"It's not foreigners, it's US -- US Citizens Were 80 Percent of All Convicted Drug Traffickers in 2024"
Related: Proof Trump's drug war against Venezuela is horseshit -
It is notable that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its most comprehensive annual report on the subject, the 2023 World Drug Report, states that Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the main cocaine producers. The same report identifies Australia, New Zealand, U.S., and Spain as the largest cocaine consumers worldwide. Curiously, Venezuela is not mentioned in any of these reports, neither as a producer nor as a major consumer. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176766935
Washington’s escalating war on Venezuela: Narco-myths and imperial designs
At UN, Gustavo Petro says ‘poor young people’ died in US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats off Caribbean coast
Agence France Presse
Wed 24 Sep 2025 11.13 AEST
Colombian president Gustavo Petro addresses the 80th United Nations general assembly at UN headquarters in New York, on Tuesday. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, addressed the UN general assembly on Tuesday to call for Donald Trump to face “criminal proceedings” over the US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.
Petro said unarmed “poor young people” died in the strikes that Washington said were part of a US anti-drug operation off the coast of Venezuela, whose president Washington accuses of running a cartel.
More than a dozen people are known to have been killed in strikes on at least three boats in attacks UN experts have described as “extrajudicial execution”.
Swatting away concerns the killings are unlawful, the US president vowed at the same forum earlier on Tuesday to obliterate drug smugglers.
“To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence,” he told the assembly.
[Insert: Repeat, it's not foreigners, it's US -- US Citizens Were 80 Percent of All Convicted Drug Traffickers in 2024]
Trump has dispatched eight warships and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, and the biggest US deployment in years has raised fears in Venezuela of an invasion.
Nicolás Maduro has accused Trump – who during his first term tried unsuccessfully to expedite the Venezuelan president’s ouster – of trying to affect regime change.
Thousands of Venezuelans have joined a civilian militia in response to Maduro’s call for bolstering the cash-strapped country’s defenses against the US “threat”.
Petro, whose country is the world’s biggest cocaine producer, has said he suspects some of those killed in the US boat strikes were Colombian.
He argued in New York on Tuesday that Trump must be investigated for giving the order for US forces to target “young people who simply wanted to escape poverty” while many cartel bosses live in the United States.
“A criminal process must be initiated against those officials who are from the United States. This includes the senior official who gave the order, President Trump,” Petro said.
The Trump administration last week decertified Colombia as an ally in the fight against drugs, but stopped short of economic sanctions.
The countries are historical allies, but ties have soured under Petro – Colombia’s first-ever leftist leader.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/23/colombia-gustavo-petro-trump-criminal-process
"It's not foreigners, it's US -- US Citizens Were 80 Percent of All Convicted Drug Traffickers in 2024"
Related: Proof Trump's drug war against Venezuela is horseshit -
It is notable that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its most comprehensive annual report on the subject, the 2023 World Drug Report, states that Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the main cocaine producers. The same report identifies Australia, New Zealand, U.S., and Spain as the largest cocaine consumers worldwide. Curiously, Venezuela is not mentioned in any of these reports, neither as a producer nor as a major consumer. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176766935
Washington’s escalating war on Venezuela: Narco-myths and imperial designs
At UN, Gustavo Petro says ‘poor young people’ died in US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats off Caribbean coast
Agence France Presse
Wed 24 Sep 2025 11.13 AEST
Colombian president Gustavo Petro addresses the 80th United Nations general assembly at UN headquarters in New York, on Tuesday. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, addressed the UN general assembly on Tuesday to call for Donald Trump to face “criminal proceedings” over the US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.
Petro said unarmed “poor young people” died in the strikes that Washington said were part of a US anti-drug operation off the coast of Venezuela, whose president Washington accuses of running a cartel.
More than a dozen people are known to have been killed in strikes on at least three boats in attacks UN experts have described as “extrajudicial execution”.
Swatting away concerns the killings are unlawful, the US president vowed at the same forum earlier on Tuesday to obliterate drug smugglers.
“To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence,” he told the assembly.
[Insert: Repeat, it's not foreigners, it's US -- US Citizens Were 80 Percent of All Convicted Drug Traffickers in 2024]
Trump has dispatched eight warships and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, and the biggest US deployment in years has raised fears in Venezuela of an invasion.
Nicolás Maduro has accused Trump – who during his first term tried unsuccessfully to expedite the Venezuelan president’s ouster – of trying to affect regime change.
Thousands of Venezuelans have joined a civilian militia in response to Maduro’s call for bolstering the cash-strapped country’s defenses against the US “threat”.
Petro, whose country is the world’s biggest cocaine producer, has said he suspects some of those killed in the US boat strikes were Colombian.
He argued in New York on Tuesday that Trump must be investigated for giving the order for US forces to target “young people who simply wanted to escape poverty” while many cartel bosses live in the United States.
“A criminal process must be initiated against those officials who are from the United States. This includes the senior official who gave the order, President Trump,” Petro said.
The Trump administration last week decertified Colombia as an ally in the fight against drugs, but stopped short of economic sanctions.
The countries are historical allies, but ties have soured under Petro – Colombia’s first-ever leftist leader.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/23/colombia-gustavo-petro-trump-criminal-process
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