“I am proud to announce that Colombia will join the A3C (Coalition Against the Cartels of the Americas), becoming the 19th member, and through the newly sworn-in president, as our president likes to say, President El Tigre, Colombia has already requested that the Department of War join Colombia in its fight against narco-terrorism, authorizing joint military operations to destroy terrorists and terrorist networks,” said Pete Hegseth, head of the Pentagon, during a coalition meeting in Panama City.
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Since the victory of far-right Abelardo de la Espriella in the presidential elections, relations between Colombia and the United States have resumed their tradition and have become closer, far from the tense period with the now former president Gustavo Petro.
Washington has expressed to the De la Espriella government political support, security cooperation, and aid following Monday’s earthquake, once again consolidating a close and aligned alliance between both governments.
The State Department previously announced that it is prepared to allocate one billion dollars to Colombia as part of a security assistance package, something that the new Colombian vice president, José Manuel Restrepo, welcomed on August 8.
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The package, Washington assures, includes strengthening Colombian security forces in the fight against terrorist and transnational criminal organizations, through U.S. technology, increased operational capacity, and coordinated operations with U.S. forces.
“Strong and concrete measures like these exemplify the type of active and operational participation we seek in our partners to make the A3C a powerful and lethal coalition. Yes, we have meetings, we will coordinate, but ultimately, it is about the operations we can carry out jointly to protect individual sovereignty and the entirety of the hemisphere,” emphasized the head of the U.S. Department of War during his speech.
