Overview
- Gustavo Petro condemned recent U.S. operations against boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, saying more than 70 people were killed and asserting the dead were poor civilians rather than narcotraffickers.
- He said Colombia is willing to engage Washington only in dialogue between equals conducted without subordination.
- Petro accused the United States of urging European and Latin American leaders to skip the CELAC–EU gathering scheduled in Santa Marta on November 9–10.
- He called to revive the Gran Colombia project and proposed organizing grassroots constituent committees across the countries that once formed it.
- Linking the dispute to his broader foreign policy stance, Petro cited the September UN General Assembly to claim Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were left isolated over Gaza.