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President Donald Trump on Sunday stated he will stop financial assistance and aids to Colombia, mentioning the South American nation’s failure to suppress its growing drug production.
Trump called Colombian President Gustavo Petro “a controlled substance leader” and implicated him of “highly motivating the huge production of narcotics” throughout the nation, including that it “has actually ended up being the greatest company’ in Colombia.
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This image reveals President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. ( Getty Images)
” Petro not does anything to stop it,” Trump composed on Fact Social, including that U.S. payments and subsides targeted at assisting Colombia address drug production are “absolutely nothing more than a long-lasting rip-off of America.”
” AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF PAYMENT, OR AIDS, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLUMBIA,” Trump included.
Trump cautioned that Colombian drugs are “triggering death, damage and havoc” as his administration steps up efforts to tighten up the border and battle the country’s continuous drug epidemic.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro is among the most singing critics of the Trump administration’s usage of fatal strikes on boats in the Caribbean. ( AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Trump likewise cautioned that Petro “much better close up these eliminating fields right away, or the United States will close them up for him, and it will not be done well.”
The Colombian Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not right away react to Fox News Digital’s ask for remark, and the White Home did not react to a different ask for more remark.
Last month, the Trump administration withdrawed Petro’s U.S. visa following “negligent and incendiary actions” in New york city City.
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Petro has likewise highly slammed the Trump administration for licensing fatal strikes on boats in the Caribbean that U.S. authorities stated were transferring narcotics.
U.S. and Guyanese police took around 5,200 pounds of drug from a self-propelled narco sub running off the coast of Guyana on March 21, 2024. ( U.S. Department of Treasury)
” Lawbreaker procedures need to be opened versus those authorities who are from the U.S. even if it consists of the highest-ranking authorities who offered the order: President Trump,” Petro stated throughout his speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
He included that the boat’s guests were not members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, as the Trump administration declared after the very first attack.
Source: Fox News.
