The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, continuing with his strong denunciations of the military deployments of the United States in the Caribbean and its clear war to seize Venezuela’s oil, again warned that the United States intends to turn the region into a conflict zone: “A new scenario of war has opened: the Caribbean,” said the president.

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Petro blames Stephen Miller for attacks in the Caribbean

This is what the president said, who just a day ago assured that the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, is the mastermind of the missile launch in the Caribbean, while he assured that “the armed aggression of the United States is irrational for the fight against drugs but it is very rational for invasions in the Caribbean.”

On Wednesday, October 8, the president of Colombia renewed these warnings, and backed a proposal by two Democratic U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Tim Kaine, who intend to force a vote in the Senate to block Trump’s use of the Armed Forces to launch attacks on ships in the Caribbean Sea.

“Senator Adam Shiff is right (…) There is no war against smuggling, there is a war for oil and it must be stopped by the world. The aggression is against all of Latin America and the Caribbean,” he wrote in a tweet that replicated Senator Schiff’s announcement about the proposal.

Petro further raised the seriousness of his complaint, stating that evidence shows that the last boat attacked by the United States illegally and unconstitutionally carried Colombian citizens: “Evidence shows that the last boat bombed was Colombian with Colombian citizens in its interior. I hope that their families appear and denounce it.”

This latest attack brought to 21 those killed extrajudicially by the U.S. government without even irrefutable evidence that the people who lost their lives in Venezuelan waters — over which the U.S. has no jurisdiction — were drug traffickers.

These positions of the Colombian president are consistent with the Venezuelan government’s own denunciations, which assures that the United States intends to infiltrate its Navy in Venezuelan and Caribbean territory in order to provoke an invasion that will lead to murders and massacres of innocents in the nation.

Democratic Senators to Force Vote to Block Trump’s Use of the Military

Petro today expressed his support for a legislative initiative in the United States Senate that seeks to curb Donald Trump’s unilateral military actions in the Caribbean Sea. The action was taken by U.S. Senators Adam Schiff and Tim Kaine, who are forcing a Senate vote to block Trump’s use of the military.

Senator Adam Schiff announced his initiative yesterday in X: “I will force a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to launch attacks on ships in the Caribbean Sea. Congress has not authorized these attacks. They are illegal and could drag the United States into another war.”

For his part, Senator Tim Kaine detailed the facts that motivate this measure: “Trump used military force to attack four ships in the Caribbean, killing 21 people, and has not presented a solid legal justification to Congress.”

Kaine explained the fundamental nature of the vote he is pushing: “The Senate will be forced to vote on a bill that I introduced regarding a very important proposition: the nation should not be at war without a vote of Congress.”

The legislators base their action on the lack of constitutional authorization. “In short, there has been no congressional authorization for such military action, and we believe that the president does not have the unilateral authority to initiate a war like this against organizations or cartels without a congressional vote,” they argued.

Schiff and Kaine pose a direct challenge to their colleagues: “That’s why we’re going to challenge our colleagues to defend the Constitution and not allow President Trump to decide on his own who our enemies are and who he can bomb

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