{"id":4667,"date":"2026-01-01T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/01\/colombian-president-us-naval-attacks-drug-boats-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:30:16","slug":"colombian-president-us-naval-attacks-drug-boats-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/01\/colombian-president-us-naval-attacks-drug-boats-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian President Explains U.S. Naval Attacks on Drug Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, stated that a significant portion of the fast boats targeted by the United States Navy were not carrying cocaine but rather shipments of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Petro referred to U.S. drug control policies, noting that marijuana is legal in several U.S. states, raising questions about the nature and intent of such military operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian president also added that Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, is under pressure from far-right factions, which has resulted in countries like Colombia and Venezuela being at the center of Washington\u2019s hardline policies.<\/p>\n<p>Petro\u2019s remarks come amid ongoing debates about the effectiveness of U.S. security and military approaches in combating drugs in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian President Gustavo Petro says many U.S. naval-targeted boats carried marijuana, questioning U.S. drug policies amid regional tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}