The president of Colombia, said this Tuesday that it has been confirmed that the unexploded bomb that was found on the border with Ecuador is from the Army of the neighboring country, so his Government will send a “note of diplomatic protest.”
“It has been proven that the bomb in Colombian territory is from the Ecuadorian army. The investigation continues and there will be a note of diplomatic protest,” Petro expressed on the X social network.
The Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez Suárez, stated earlier that military experts are investigating the origin of the unexploded bomb, found in the border department of Putumayo, and that, according to Petro, .
The Colombian president said last night in a council of ministers that his country was bombed, after the bomb was found near the border with Ecuador.
“A bomb dropped from a plane has appeared. The methods will be investigated well, very much on the border with Ecuador (sic), confirming my suspicion a little, but we must investigate well, because they are bombing us from Ecuador and it is not the armed groups,” he said yesterday.
The president also pointed out that he asked his American counterpart, in a phone call, last week to “act and call the president of Ecuador” because his country does not want to “go to war.”
“It’s false”
However, the Ecuadorian president, on Tuesday, denied Petro’s complaint and stated that his country’s recent military operations against organized crime near the border with Colombia, with the support of the United States, have occurred in Ecuadorian territory.
“President Petro, your statements are false; we are acting in our territory, not yours,” said Noboa in
The verbal confrontation did not stop and the Colombian president responded in
Later, in a speech at a foreign policy event, Petro asked “how (the bomb) got there and why.”
Furthermore, he assured that the bomb was “one hundred meters from a peasant family” and that it must have been launched or thrown, probably “without wanting to shoot it from a plane” because due to its weight, the device is not suitable for being launched from a small plane and “much less from a drone.”
