Ecuador conflict with Columbia

[Ravenlocke]

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Drop Site

🚨🇨🇴 BREAKING: Petro says Ecuador bombings have left “27 charred bodies” in Colombia, urges U.S. intervention

🔸Here’s what to know:

1. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that bombings in Colombia, near the Ecuador border, have left 27 people burned to death, adding the official explanation from Quito “is not credible.”

2. Petro said a bomb recovered near homes “was dropped from a plane,” and does not match weapons used by armed groups or Colombia’s military, which he said did not authorize any strike.

3. “I asked him to call the president of Ecuador because we don’t want to go to war,” Petro said, referring to a request for Donald Trump to intervene.

4. Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa rejected the accusation from his leftist counterpart, saying military operations—supported by “international cooperation”—are being carried out within Ecuador’s territory against organized crime and illegal mining groups, some of them linked to Colombia. (See post on reply for more details on the operation)

5. Colombian media have published images of a large aerial bomb found near the border, supporting Petro’s claim it was air-dropped. (See below)

6. Separate reporting by Revista RAYA has documented similar unexplained bombings in Nariño in recent weeks, leaving dozens dead with no group claiming responsibility.

7. The dispute unfolds amid a deepening trade war that began in late January 2026, when Ecuador imposed tariffs of up to 50% on Colombian goods. Colombia responded soon after with 30% tariffs and halted electricity exports.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033955057851306170

[Ravenlocke]

Guillaume Long

Translated from Spanish

Noboa is playing a very dangerous game that could end in a fratricidal conflict between sister nations. Bombing Colombian territory is not like storming the Mexican embassy. The assault on the embassy isolated us and stigmatized us. Mexico broke off relations. It was undoubtedly terrible for our positioning in the world. But this is much more risky. It could end in a real conflict and with a neighbor that has vastly superior military capabilities.

Ecuadorians do not want to be the useful idiots of fanatics who seek to set our region ablaze. We want neither war nor deaths because of the childish whims of a petty oligarchic tyrant.

https://x.com/GuillaumeLong/status/2033873658670673940

[Ravenlocke]

Soviet y Sazón 🌺

Just in case it’s been hard to keep track, in the past few weeks the Noboa dictatorship has:

• Bombed Colombia
• Bombed the Amazon
• Deployed 75,000 troops to round up children in a drug purge while he continues trafficking cocaine through his shipping enterprise
•Prohibited journalists from recording military operations
•Expanded the work day to 12 hours
•Kidnapped the mayor of the largest city in Ecuador for publicly criticizing him
•Banned his biggest political opposition party from participating in elections
•Disregarded a democratic vote and pushed through mining reforms that 65% of the country voted against
•Was accused by the head of the Los Lobos Cartel for ordering the assassination of his opponent in the presidential election
•Had unmarked cars chase and intimidate journalists

The list goes on but my thumbs hurt

https://x.com/sovietwithsazon/status...05130173522039

[Ravenlocke]

Guillaume Long

Translated from Spanish
Noboa Seeks to Destabilize Colombia Amid Elections. It Started with Tariffs to Harm Its Economy. Now He Attacks Colombian Territory. Noboa Believes This Will Boost His Low Approval Ratings at Home, While Weakening the Petro Government and Cepeda's Candidacy. He Does It, Moreover, to Please His Masters in Miami. With These Irresponsible Actions, Noboa Puts Regional Peace at Risk.

https://x.com/GuillaumeLong/status/2033868809153487286

[Ravenlocke]

Gustavo Petro

Translated from Spanish
The bombings on the Colombia-Ecuador border don't seem to be from the armed groups—they don't have planes—nor from Colombia's public forces. I didn't give that order.

There are 27 charred bodies, and the explanation isn't credible. The bombs are on the ground near families, many of whom have peacefully decided to replace their coca leaf crops with legal crops.

Here I show the products from the substitution already: coffee, chocolate, cacao.

https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/2033925920390586547

[Ravenlocke]

Gustavo Petro

Translated from Spanish
Investigate in depth this bomb dropped on the Colombian border with Ecuador from an airplane. It fell one hundred meters from the home of an impoverished peasant family.

https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/2033951911112532185

[Ravenlocke]

Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇪🇨🇨🇴 "No One Wants a War": Ecuador Denies Bombings on Colombian Territory Following Petro's Accusation

🗣 "What I can confirm is that Ecuador does, in fact, have attack operations against camps of irregular groups. They are not Ecuadorian; they are groups that cross our border from Colombia, but they are located in Ecuadorian territory," stated Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Gabriela Sommerfeld, in an interview with the Teleamazonas channel.

The minister alluded to recent statements by Petro, in which he urged the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to call his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa, to prevent a war.

Translated from Spanish
💬 "Nobody wants a war. What we do have to recognize is that Ecuador has a non-international armed conflict within our territory, and Ecuador is not willing to allow the groups that respond to transnational organized crime to continue developing and growing, intimidating the population and creating violence: let's talk about drug trafficking, let's talk about illegal mining, let's talk about human trafficking, of children, of weapons, illicit trade," stated the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister.

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2033917765887643772