Marco Rubio revealed that Colombia requested assistance from the United States to combat drug trafficking, but did not ask for the deployment of American military forces to directly confront cartels in the South American country.
According to Rubio, the Colombian request focused on specific areas of cooperation, including information sharing, target identification, and similar issues related to the fight against drug trafficking.
The American diplomat detailed that the assistance requested by Colombia does not involve direct military operations on Colombian territory, but rather intelligence support and identification of criminal organizations.
This statement from Rubio comes in the context of growing tensions between the two countries regarding the drug trafficking problem, which continues to be one of the main security challenges in the region.
