Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday that the vessel recently bombed by the United States in the Caribbean might have been Colombian and carried Colombian nationals. The White House dismissed his remark, calling it an unfounded claim.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced the latest in a series of military strikes targeting drug trafficking vessels off the coast of Venezuela , although the Pentagon has yet to confirm any such strike occurred on Saturday.

“Indications show that the last boat bombed was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside of it,” Petro said in a post on X. “The aggression is against all of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

If verified, the assertion would bring Colombia into the fray of a U.S. campaign that had previously targeted Venezue

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