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Trump calls Colombian president an ‘illegal drug leader’, ends payments
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President Donald Trump stated Sunday he’ll reduce monetary support and subsidies to Colombia, citing the South American nation’s incapability to curb its rising cocaine manufacturing.
Trump referred to as Colombian President Gustavo Petro “an unlawful drug kingpin” and accused him of “strongly encouraging the large manufacturing of narcotics all through the nation,” including that it has turn out to be “the most important enterprise” in Colombia.
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This picture reveals President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. (Getty Photographs)
“Petro is doing nothing to cease this,” Trump wrote on Reality Social, including that U.S. funds and subsidies supposed to assist Colombia deal with drug manufacturing are “nothing greater than a rip-off of America in the long term.”
“STARTING TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLUMBIA,” Trump added.
Trump warned that Colombian medication are “inflicting dying, destruction and devastation” as his administration steps up efforts to tighten borders and fight the nation’s ongoing drug epidemic.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been one of the crucial outspoken critics of the Trump administration’s use of lethal assaults on boats within the Caribbean. (AP Picture/Fernando Vergara)
Trump additionally warned that Petro “higher shut these killing fields instantly, or the US will shut them for him, and it will not be carried out gracefully.”
The Colombian Embassy in Washington DC didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark, and the White Home didn’t reply to a separate request for additional remark.
Final month, the Trump administration revoked Petro’s US visa after “reckless and seditious actions” in New York Metropolis.
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Petro has additionally strongly criticized the Trump administration for permitting lethal assaults on boats within the Caribbean that US officers stated had been transporting narcotics.
US and Guyanese regulation enforcement seized roughly 5,200 kilos of cocaine from a self-propelled narco-submarine working off the coast of Guyana on March 21, 2024. (US Division of the Treasury)
“Legal proceedings should be opened towards officers coming from the US, even when it issues the very best official who gave the order: President Trump,” Petro stated throughout his speech to the UN Normal Meeting.
He added that the boat’s passengers weren’t members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, because the Trump administration claimed after the primary assault.