"Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, the US president threatened similar military action against Colombia, saying the South American country is very sick too and run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories and is not going to be doing it very long, Trump added. While Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine there is no evidence that President Gustavo Petro, who was elected in 2022, is in any way involved in the business."
"Petro, a former leftist guerrilla who demobilised in the 1990s, rejected the accusations, saying:I am not illegitimate and I am not a narco,. Trump speaks without knowledge. Stop slandering me, he wrote in a post on X. If they [the US] bomb peasants, they will become thousands of guerrillas in the mountains. And if they detain the president which a large part of the country loves and respects, they will unleash the jaguar' of the people, Petro warned."
US forces attacked Venezuela to remove Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, and tensions have risen between the United States and Colombia after the US president threatened similar military action against Colombia. The US president accused Colombia and President Gustavo Petro of running cocaine mills and factories and selling cocaine to the United States. Colombia is the world's largest cocaine producer, but there is no evidence linking President Petro to the narcotics trade. Colombia's narcotics trade is largely controlled by illegal armed groups such as the Golf Clan, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident Farc factions. Petro rejected the accusations and warned that foreign attacks would create more guerrillas.
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