AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Trump administration has said that it is attacking boats and killing their occupants because they are smuggling drugs from Venezuela to the United States.President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at the United Nations General Assembly last month.Credit...Leonardo Munoz/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOct. 8, 2025President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said on Wednesday that his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens.“A new war zone has opened up: the Caribbean,” Mr. Petro wrote on X. “Signs show that the last boat bombed was Colombian, with Colombian citizens inside. I hope their families come forward and file a complaint.”Mr. Petro did not provide further details.Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like.Julie Turkewitz is the Andes Bureau Chief for The Times, based in Bogotá, Colombia, covering Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 9, 2025, Section A, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Citizens Killed In U.S. Attack, Colombia Says. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | SubscribeRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT