Colombia proved that a nation could ban energy shipments to Israel’s war machine. Fossil capital is trying to ensure that no other state dares to do the same.

On July 24, 2025, the Malta-flagged bulk carrier Fortune left Puerto Drummond on Colombia’s Caribbean coast with 93,297 tonnes of thermal coal in its holds, bound for Hadera. Later that day, Gustavo Petro declared that not another ton of Colombian coal would reach Israel, denouncing the loophole that had allowed the trade to continue under the embargo initiated in 2024.

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