The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to send three U.S. Navy warships to South America, including near the coast of Venezuela. This comes after Trump recently signed a secret directive authorizing the U.S. military to carry out attacks in Latin America to target drug cartels. On Tuesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro warned the U.S. against using military force in the region.

President Gustavo Petro: “The Americans are wrong if they think that by invading Venezuela, they are solving their problems. They’re putting Venezuela in the same situation as Syria, but they would drag Colombia into the same, because these groups would take over underground resources and minerals, and this means more economy of death, not of life. So I told the United States, through its envoys, that invading Venezuela would be the worst mistake.”