Overview
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended intelligence sharing and other security contacts with the United States until the missile strikes on boats cease, citing the death of a Colombian fisherman as an extrajudicial killing.
- Britain has reportedly limited the transfer of certain intelligence on suspected smuggling vessels to avoid complicity in the strikes, according to CNN and the New York Times, while London declined to comment.
- The USS Gerald R. Ford and three destroyers have arrived in the US Southern Command’s area of operations, with Washington framing the buildup as a counternarcotics mission.
- Venezuela began a two-day exercise mobilizing roughly 200,000 personnel under the “Plan Independencia 200,” with Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López denouncing a perceived imperial threat.
- US officials acknowledge roughly 19–20 strikes and at least 76 deaths since September, UN human-rights experts warn of possible extrajudicial killings, and the United States has not publicly shown evidence that the boats carried drugs.