Published On 20 Oct 2025
Ambassador Daniel Garcia-Pena and President Gustavo Petro, who Trump described as an “illegal drug leader,” were scheduled to meet in Bogota on Monday, according to the South American country’s ministry of foreign affairs.
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US strikes in the Caribbean on vessels that the Trump administration claims are importing drugs, mostly from Venezuela, have fueled the growing conflict between the two nations. Petro has been criticized harshly for those strikes, which have claimed the lives of numerous people and are widely accepted as violating US and international law.
Trump threatened that if Petro did not take additional steps to stop the country’s drug trafficking, the US would “and it won’t be done nicely,” in a social media post on Sunday.
Armando Benedetti, the interior minister of Colombia, said on Monday that those remarks “were seen as a threat of invasion or military action against Colombia.”
“I can’t imagine closing down some hectares] of drug production sites,” he continued. “Unless it’s done that way, it’s by invading.”
A left-wing rebel group involved in the transport of drugs was also reported over the weekend when the US announced that it had struck a ship from Colombia on Friday. These assertions have not been supported by the Trump administration.
Petro claimed that Alejandro Carranza, a Colombian fisherman who had no affiliation with drug trafficking, was one of the victims in a number of social media posts.
Source: Aljazeera
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