In an interview with FRANCE 24, former Colombian president Iván Duque defended US military strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats, rejecting current president Gustavo Petro’s denunciation of the operations as “murder”. “If the US uses its capacity to carry out interdiction, I think it is lawful,” Duque said. Claiming that Venezuela is “run by a dictator who is now the head of the Cartel de los Soles,” the former Colombian president stated: “If the US wants to undertake precision operations against those cartels, I am in favour of that.”