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 polĂtica exterior que Colombia no comparte.
03:17Hernán DarĂo Tobar, Gaitán Telesur, Bogotá, Colombia.
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