""Come get me. I'm waiting for you here.""
""If you bomb even one of these groups without sufficient intelligence, you will kill many children," Petro said Monday on X. "If you bomb peasants, thousands of guerrillas will return in the mountains. And if you arrest the president whom a good part of my people want and respect, you will unleash the popular jaguar.""
""Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States," Trump told reporters Sunday, referring to Petro. "And he's not going to be doing it very long, let me tell you." "He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories and is not going to be doing it very long," Trump added. Asked if the U.S. would launch an operation against the country, the president said, "It sounds good to me.""
""As President Trump outlined in his National Security Strategy, the administration is reasserting and enforcing the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, control migration, and stop drug trafficking." "The President has many options at his disposal to continue to protect our homeland from illicit narcotics that kill tens of thousands of Americans every year," she added."
Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned a U.S. operation in Venezuela, issued a direct taunt to President Trump, and warned that strikes or arrests risk civilian casualties and renewed insurgency. Petro cautioned that bombing without sufficient intelligence would kill children, that attacks on peasants would drive guerrillas back to the mountains, and that arresting a respected president would provoke popular backlash. President Trump accused Petro of running cocaine operations and said a U.S. operation "sounds good to me." The Colombian foreign ministry urged diplomacy and rejected threats, while the White House emphasized a Monroe Doctrine approach to drugs and migration.
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