Petro on boats targeted by U.S.

You have been insulted? Colombia is a drug den.

President Trump has blamed Petro for failing to rein in cartels. The Drug Enforcement Administration says about 90% of cocaine that reaches the US comes from Colombia. You got a lousy leader over there right now, bad guy, a thug. But they make cocaine at levels that we've never seen before.

In the past two months, the US has conducted at least nine military strikes, some of them off the Coast of Colombia. Does the US tell you? [SPEAKING SPANISH] You don't know where it happened. You don't know what kind of attacks these were? Do you know if they were drones or it was aircraft? [SPEAKING SPANISH] The White House said the strikes were on terrorist organizations and that they happened in international waters. [SPEAKING SPANISH] Launching missiles over two people in a small boat is a war crime, says Petro. 37 people have been killed so far in the operations. You don't call them traffickers, the people who are being targeted. You call them workers of trafficking. [SPEAKING SPANISH] Killing the workers of the business is easy, Petro says. But if you want efficiency, you have to capture the bosses of the business. And he says also, major shipments, not smaller boats. This week, President Trump said his war on drugs could soon move from water to land. On Thursday, two long range B-1 bombers flew near Venezuela. Petro says he hopes it won't cross Colombian borders, warning that it could generate more violence and advises President Trump-- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

It's best to dialogue instead. Well, President Trump has also threatened stopping or halting all aid to Colombia. I asked Petro about that. And he said that his government can make do. He did mention he was concerned about losing some Blackhawks. Much of the aid that comes to Colombia is for military and police operations for counter-narcotic efforts. I asked them also about Trump's threats on tariffs. He says he's not losing sleep over that. But the US is Colombia's largest trading partner. And I have heard from many Colombians, people in the business sector, people in different communities who are losing sleep because they're saying if the US is consuming 1/4 of the goods that we export, what impact is that going to have on the economy? I asked Petro about this, about whether that's going to push more people into poverty and thereby more people into the drug trade. He has solutions that he says work. I've studied this in the past. They haven't necessarily. But we'll see what he presents to the White House moving forward. Lilia, such a great interview, a great get at such an important moment. Thank you very much for joining us from Colombia.