Trump criticized Colombia for producing cocaine and selling it into the US during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday at the White House.
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“I’ve heard that Colombia, the nation of Colombia, produces cocaine. Trump claimed that they have cocaine factories, okay, and then sell it to us.
He said, “Anyone who does that and sells it into our country is attacked.”
Petro quickly responded to Trump by claiming that “without missiles” his government had destroyed 18,400 cocaine labs.
“Come to Colombia, Mr. Trump,” Petro remarked.
To stop cocaine from reaching the US, Petro said, “Come with me, and I’ll show you how they are destroyed, one laboratory every 40 minutes.”
Petro cautioned against “threatening Colombia’s sovereignty,” which he claimed would “wake up a Jaguar.”
Avoid compromising two centuries of diplomatic relations. You have already slandered me; don’t go back in that direction, Petro said, making an apparent reference to Trump’s earlier claims that the Colombian leader was a part of the drug trade.
Colombia is the only nation that has assisted in preventing the influx of thousands of tonnes of cocaine from being consumed by North Americans, Petro said.
Venga seor Trump travels to Colombia on an invitation to participate in the demolition of the nine diabolical labor camps so that no one can compete against the EEUU.
Sin misiles, he was destruid in my home of 18.400 laboratorios, venga conmigo, and the enseense that led to his destruction… https://t.co/8WOKnclDK7
Colombia continues to be the main gateway to the US market for cocaine, with 84 percent of the cocaine seized there in 2024 coming from Colombia.
At least 83 people were killed when Trump’s administration launched missile attacks on ships in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea while using the pretext to stop the flow of drugs to the US from Venezuela.
Trump was seated next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is under investigation for a so-called “double-tap” strike in September that left two survivors of an earlier US attack on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, which had already killed nine people, as he made his remarks about the expansion of attacks against narcotics-exporting nations.
According to legal experts, the second killing of the two survivors as they clung to the wreckage of the devasted vessel could have been a war crime, and both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have pledged to look into the circumstances surrounding the killings.
Hegseth defended the secondary strike, but he claimed on Tuesday that he had not witnessed the second deadly US attack or the first attack despite having witnessed the first one on the suspected drug smuggling vessel in person.
The Pentagon director claimed that he only learned shortly after the second strike on survivors from US Admiral Frank Bradley, the head of special operations command.
Source: Aljazeera
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