Colombia, social groups in the country condemn international law violations committed by the U.S.

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In Colombia, different political and social groups are condemning the violations of international humanitarian law committed by the United States through its military presence and attacks on ships in Caribbean waters under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. Let's take a closer look at the issue. teleSUR

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00:00Colombia, its military presence and attacks on ships in Caribbean waters

00:03under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.

00:06Let's take a closer look at the issue.

00:10Some sectors in Colombia consider the attacks on small boats in the Caribbean by the United States

00:16to be violations of international law and extrajudicial executions, as well as illegal acts.

00:22The President of the United States has calmly stated that they are bombing all vessels

00:30approaching the coast of Venezuela without any caution.

00:39They could be fishermen, they could be tourists, they could be drug traffickers.

00:43International laws clearly require that the vessel be boarded first,

00:46and if there are real reasons to detain people, they cannot be shot or massacred.

00:52I believe this is a clear violation of international law and a humanitarian law that cannot be accepted.

01:08From the legislature, some congressmen maintain that this strategy by the United States and its government

01:15aims not only to undermine the sovereignty of the region, but also to harass left-wing governments

01:20in the region and warn about the repercussions for the territory.

01:28First, they need an excuse, and today the excuse is supposedly the attack on drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea

01:34when most of it takes place in the Pacific.

01:41They already have the excuse, now comes the military presence.

01:44They did it in the waters and they are even saying how they have done it in the Middle East

01:49and have destabilized that entire area, that there would be land intervention.

01:53In other words, the intervention of our sovereignty over this territory,

01:57and after they do that, the consolidation of coups against the political groups

02:00that are elected in the territories at that time.

02:02This is very worrying, and it is not just Venezuela, it is the region,

02:10and we all have to unite to prevent this intervention.

02:13For many, this United States policy is evidence of the internal decline

02:23that the country is experiencing, and of a government that seeks to maintain control over the region.

02:29It is clearly an excuse, a pretext to attack Latin American countries,

02:36especially Venezuela, to subjugate them, to threaten them.

02:39We don't know what he is going to do, but also to achieve its strategic interests in the region,

02:44to send a very clear message to Colombia and Venezuela,

02:47because it is also very confrontational with Petro.

02:53The actions of the United States are described as a threat in a strong statement

02:58by the head of Colombian Diplomacy,

03:01who rejected the Trump administration's warfare tactics to combat drug trafficking,

03:05arguing that these people have always been seized and arrested without the need to kill them,

03:10actions that are part of a foreign policy that Colombia does not share.

03:13...marcan una política exterior que Colombia no comparte.

03:17Hernán Darío Tobar, Gaitán Telesur, Bogotá, Colombia.

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