Colombia on Friday blasted the United States’ “excessive” military presence in the Caribbean as destabilizing for all Latin America, a sharp rebuke from one of Washington’s oldest regional allies.

Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio told AFP that the US deployment of several warships off Venezuela was “disproportionate” and the threat of military intervention was rattling the region.

“Venezuela, of course, is concerned, as is the entire region, about the possibility of an intervention,” she said. “Such an excessive military presence in the region is not justified.”

Colombia’s top diplomat rejected outright President Donald Trump’s claims that the naval ships, a submarine, and a squadron of F-35 fighter jets were there to tackle the drug trade.

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