Overview
- President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombia’s military intelligence to suspend contacts with U.S. security agencies, citing ongoing missile attacks on boats and the reported killing of a Colombian fisherman he called an extrajudicial execution.
- Britain has reportedly halted some intelligence sharing on suspected smuggling vessels to avoid complicity in strikes it views as unlawful, according to CNN and other outlets, while London declined to comment on intelligence matters.
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the U.S. operations violate international law and warned of risks to more than a million French citizens in Caribbean territories if the situation escalates.
- The U.S. military says it has conducted at least 19–20 attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific with at least 76 fatalities, as the UN human rights office has warned the killings may be unlawful and the U.S. has not publicly presented corroborating evidence.
- The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has reached the U.S. Southern Command’s area of operations and Venezuela has launched large-scale exercises involving roughly 200,000 personnel in response to what it calls an imperialist threat.