Colombian President Gustavo Petro warned President Donald Trump that the country will take action against threats posed by “the invader.”
“I have enormous trust in my people and that is why I have asked the people to defend the president from any illegitimate violent act against him. The way to defend me is to take power in all the municipalities of the country,” Petro said in a lengthy statement shared on X. “The order to the public force is not to shoot the people but yes to the invader.”
Petro accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio as being fed “false information” by “Colombian politicians linked familially or commercially to the mafia, who want the breakup of relations between the US and Colombia so that cocaine narcotrafficking explodes in the world.” Meanwhile, Petro described himself as the “supreme commander of the military forces” who “ordered the largest seizure of cocaine in world history.”
He noted that he also “stopped the growth of coca leaf crops and began a great voluntary crop substitution plan by the coca-growing peasant.”
“Every soldier of Colombia has an order from now on: every commander of the public force who prefers the flag of the US to the flag of Colombia must immediately withdraw from the institution by order of the bases and the troops and mine,” Petro threatened. “The constitution orders the public force to defend popular sovereignty.”
Petro’s comments come as President Trump called Colombia “very sick,” declaring the country to be “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he’s not going to be doing it very long.”
