Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered Colombian public security forces to suspend intelligence sharing with US intelligence agencies until the US stops attacking boats in the Caribbean.
"The fight against drugs must be subordinated to the human rights of the Caribbean people," Mr Petro said in a post on X, referencing the two countries' history of collaboration against drug trafficking.
Mr Petro said the order would remain in place while the US continues to conduct missile attacks on boats in the Caribbean.
The Colombian president was responding to a CNN report which stated that the UK has also suspended some intelligence sharing with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, due to concerns over US military attacks.
The UK intelligence-sharing pause started more than a month ago, CNN reported, quoting sources as saying Britain shares UN's human rights chief Volker Turk’s assessment that the strikes amount to extrajudicial killing.
US forces have carried out attacks on at least 20 vessels in international waters in the region since early September, killing at least 76 people, according to US figures.
The US struck two alleged drug-carrying vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean as recently as Sunday, killing six people on board, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
The US has alleged, without presenting evidence, that the boats it bombed were transporting drugs, but foreign leaders, some members of Congress, legal experts and family members of the deceased have called for proof.
The US Gerald Ford aircraft carrier strike group moved into the Latin America region, two US officials said, escalating the military buildup in the Caribbean.
The vessel's deployment was ordered nearly three weeks ago.
On 2 November, US President Donald Trump played down the prospect of going to war with Venezuela but claimed Mr Maduro's days were numbered.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said it was chilling to see the US military blowing up suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coasts of Latin America with no transparency.
"What happened to due process? What happened to the rule of law?" Mr Newsom said when asked about the strikes at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
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"It's chilling to me to see those scenes of the United States of America blowing up boats with no transparency, no advise and consent with the United States Congress, the representatives of my country, with briefings that are laughable, that members of Congress, both the House and the Senate, including Republicans, have criticised."
Meanwhile, Venezuela announced what it called a major, nationwide military deployment to counter the US naval presence off its coast.
The defence ministry in Caracas spoke in a statement of a "massive deployment" of land, sea, air, river and missile forces as well as civilian militia to counter "imperial threats".
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