In addition, the Navy indicated on its Twitter account that the development of training exercises in the Colombian Caribbean contribute “to the collective construction of timely and adequate responses to the great global challenges in security and defense.”
During the action “tactical maneuvers, interdiction exercises, emergency support on the high seas, among others, were carried out, testing the capabilities of the warship and the logistics ship,” the text adds.
The Navy did not detail when the maneuvers were carried out, nor the specific place.
On Monday, Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano reported that the United States Army and Navy carried out military exercises some 130 kilometers from Cartagena, which for the first time included a nuclear submarine, to fight drug trafficking and protect “national sovereignty”. “.
The operations of Colombia, the only Latin American country that is a strategic partner of NATO, take place in the midst of tensions with the dictatorship of Venezuela, an ally of Russia in the region.
Since the beginning of March, the Colombian government has questioned an alleged attempt at Russian interference in its country by supporting troops of the Venezuelan regime on the common border, accusations that Moscow rejected.
Bogotá, a close ally of Washington in the West, is critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.