President Gustavo Petro proposes meeting to discuss the situation in the Pacific in the face of US aggression

Published at: 16/11/2025 12:13 PM

The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, proposed this Sunday, November 16, to hold a meeting to discuss the situation in the Pacific in the face of aggression by the United States.

The proposal was published on his account on the social network X, in which he specified that he proposed to General John Aquilino, former commander of the US Pacific Command, that “a meeting of the governments of the United States, China, Mexico and Colombia should now be included in Ecuador, Chile and Australia to analyze a treaty towards a Pacific without illegalities”.

“Trafficking in fentanyl precursors, cocaine, contraband and weapons must be analyzed and treated together. The impositions here only serve the mafias. I propose the same meeting again,” he emphasized.

“Threatening the Caribbean, Mexico and Colombia, besides being despotic, is useless,” he added.

For its part, the Russia Today portal points out that the Colombian president previously stated that the attacks by the United States against vessels constitute “extrajudicial executions”.

His statements come in a context in which the Pentagon announced this week the military operation 'Spear of the South'.

The publication points out that the United States has maintained a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea since last August, under the justification of the fight against drugs, and under that pretext it has bombed several small boats in the area that supposedly carried drugs, although it has not shown proof of this.

At the same time, Washington accused the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, without evidence or support, of leading an alleged drug trafficking cartel.

In this regard, in the face of US accusations, the Venezuelan authorities have articulated a unified response that rejects the framework of bilateral confrontation and denounce that it is a campaign of multilateral aggression.

President Maduro describes Washington's actions as a smear campaign against his Administration to “justify anything” against Venezuela.

He stated that this strategy seeks to tarnish the image of Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution as a pretext for aggressions, something they “have done many times.”

The Venezuelan president has repeatedly explained that U.S. aggressions against Venezuela seek to “change the regime” in the country and appropriate its “immense oil wealth”.

Mazo News Team