Overview
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended intelligence exchanges and other security contacts with the United States, citing missile strikes on boats that he says killed a Colombian fisherman in an extrajudicial killing.
- France’s foreign minister publicly labeled the U.S. operations against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean unlawful and warned of risks to stability in French Caribbean territories.
- CNN and other outlets report the United Kingdom has paused sharing certain intelligence on suspected smuggling vessels with Washington; Downing Street declined to comment on intelligence matters.
- The U.S. military says it has carried out about 19–20 strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing at least 76 people, and has not publicly presented evidence that the targeted boats carried drugs.
- The USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in the region alongside existing U.S. naval and air assets as Venezuela put its forces on alert and announced mobilizations, denouncing the killings as illegal executions.