Saikat Chakrabarti reacted to Colombia’s claim that US killed a Colombian fisherman who had no links to drugs.
Colombia has accused the US of violating the South American country’s sovereignty and killing a Colombian fisherman after teh US military struck an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in September. Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro said Alejandro Carranza, a fisherman, was killed in the strike. “The United States has invaded our national territory, firing a missile to kill a humble fisherman, destroying his family and his children. This is Bolívar’s homeland, and they are murdering his children with bombs. The United States has violated Colombia’s national territory and murdered an honest, hardworking Colombian citizen. Let Bolívar’s sword be raised!” Petro said, adding that the fisherman had no ties to drugs.Amid the ongoing clash between Trump and Petro, Trump said in a post to social media that Petro “does nothing to stop” the production of drugs in his country, “despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America.” “President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely,” Trump posted. Last month, the US revoked Petro’s visa after he publicly called on American soldiers to disobey Trump during a visit to the United Nations General Assembly.Indian-origin Saikat Chakrabarti who is running against Nancy Pelosi for Congress called the alleged killing of a Colombian man a “state sanctioned murder”. “But we have normalized state violence to such an extent in America, including against our own citizens, that this will barely go noticed because it was someone in another country,” Chakrabarti said.
