Benedetti said<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\nThe apparent about-face comes after Petro \u2014 a left-wing leader and vocal critic of US President Donald Trump \u2014 said on Tuesday that an order had been issued \u201cto suspend communications and other dealings with US security agencies\u201d.<\/p>\n
Petro has been critical of a series of deadly US attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration accused of smuggling illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
The strikes have prompted widespread condemnation, with United Nations officials and other experts saying they amount to clear violations of international law.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese attacks \u2014 and their mounting human cost \u2014 are unacceptable,\u201d Volker Turk, the UN human rights chief, said in late October.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has rejected the criticism, saying its attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific aim to deter drug traffickers. The US bombing campaign, which began in September, has killed at least 76 people to date.<\/p>\n
Trump, without providing any evidence, also has accused Petro of being involved in drug trafficking, imposing sanctions on the Colombian president and his family last month.<\/p>\n
The Colombian leader has, in turn, called for Trump to be investigated for war crimes linked to the attacks, which have affected citizens from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n
Petro also has accused Washington of going after peasants growing coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, instead of targeting major drug traffickers and money launderers.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Petro said that he met with the family of a Colombian fisherman who was allegedly killed in one of the US strikes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe may have been carrying fish, or he may have been carrying cocaine, but he had not been sentenced to death,\u201d Petro said during a summit between Latin American and European leaders hosted by Colombia. \u201cThere was no need to murder him.\u201d<\/p>\n
US news outlet CNN reported earlier this week that the United Kingdom had suspended some intelligence-sharing with the US over its strikes on the boats in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected that report. Without going into any details or explaining what about CNN\u2019s reporting was inaccurate, Rubio told reporters on Wednesday that the story was \u201cfake\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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