United States President Donald Trump has threatened his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, in the wake of Washington’s abduction of Venezuela’s leader, and said he believed the government in Cuba, too, was likely to fall soon.
Trump’s comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday indicate the US was prepared to consider additional military interventions in Latin America after Nicolas Maduro’s abduction.
Trump told reporters that both Colombia and Venezuela were “very sick” and that the government in Bogota was 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. Let me tell you,” Trump said, referring to Petro.
When asked if he meant an operation by the US on Colombia, Trump said, “Sounds good to me.”
The comments prompted an immediate backlash from Petro, who called on all countries in Latin America to unite or face being “treated as a servant and slave”.
“The US is the first country in the world to bomb a South American capital in all of human history,” he wrote in a lengthy post on X. “The wound remains open for a long time,” he said, but revenge was not the answer.
Latin America must unite, Petro said, and become a region “with the capacity to understand, trade, and join together with the whole world” and one that does not look “only to the north but in all directions”.
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