President Trump on Sunday blasted Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, saying he is “an illegal drug leader who is encouraging the mass production of drugs in sectors large and small throughout Colombia” while cutting subsidies to the country.
“This has become the biggest business ever done in Colombia, and despite massive payments and subsidies from the United States, Petro is doing nothing to stop it, which is nothing more than a long-term scam of the US. As of today, these payments, or any other form of payment, or subsidy, will no longer be made in Colombia,” Trump said. Post Truth on Social.
“The purpose of this drug production is to sell massive amounts of product in the United States, causing death, destruction, and devastation,” the president said.
“Petro, a low-rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth towards the United States, had better close these killing zones immediately, otherwise the United States will close them for him, and that will not be done well.
The president’s post came after Petro on Saturday accused the United States of “murder” following the September attack by what Trump described as a “confirmed narco-terrorist.”
“US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing,” Petro said in a Spanish post. social platform xAccording to artificial intelligence tool Grok.
“The Colombian boat went adrift and gave a distress signal due to engine failure. We are awaiting clarification from the US government,” he said.
Trump said that on September 15, the US had launched a military strike in international waters aimed at “confirmed Venezuelan narco-terrorists”.
“This morning, on my orders, U.S. military forces conducted a second kinetic strike against positively identified, exceptionally violent drug trafficking cartels and narco-terrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump posted on Truth Social along with a video of the military strike targeting a boat floating in the water.
