Trump ending aid to Colombia after U.S. accused of murder for boat strike

U.S. President Donald Trump on the left and Columbia's president Gustavo Petro on the right

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is ending aid to Colombia after the country’s president, Gustavo Petro, accused the U.S. of ‘murder’ when it struck a small boat within Colombian territorial waters in September. The U.S. alleges the boat was a drug vessel, but Petro said the fisherman killed onboard had no ties to the drug trade.

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