Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Saturday that he had received the Colombian detained in the United States attack on a suspected narcosubmarine in the Caribbean.

"We received the Colombian detained in the narco submarine, we are glad that he is alive and he will be prosecuted according to the laws,” Petro said on the social network X without going into details.

“Two of the terrorists died. At least 25,000 Americans would die if this submarine were allowed to touch land. The two surviving terrorists will be returned to their countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution,” Trump explained on the social network Truth Social.

The president added that US intelligence had confirmed that the vessel “was loaded primarily with fentanyl and other illegal narcotics.”

These are the first two arrests made by the United States during its current escalation against drug trafficking, in which US forces have sunk at least six vessels in Caribbean waters, leaving a death toll of nearly 30.

The US deployment in the Caribbean, which began in August under the justification of combating drug trafficking near the coast of Venezuela, has caused growing tension between Washington and the government of Petro and Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro, who sees the operation as a prelude to a possible attack against the country.