Colombian President Gustavo Petro threatened to “take out” President Donald Trump in an lengthy interview with Univision on Monday a day after Trump referred to as Petro “an unlawful drug chief.”
Relations between Colombia and the USA are at a nadir after the U.S. destroyed a suspected drug operating boat within the Caribbean final month, killing a Colombian nationwide. Petro mentioned the person was a fisherman. A report by El Pais says the person had a felony document involving the theft of tons of of weapons from a police station in 2015.
Colombia recalled its ambassador to the U.S. on Monday for consultations.
Final month, the State Division revoked Petro’s visa through the U.N. Common Meeting after he spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York Metropolis and referred to as on U.S. troops to disobey orders by Trump.
Talking with Univision President Daniel Coronell on the finish of the interview at Casa de Nariño in Bogota, Petro mentioned if Trump received’t change, the answer is to “take out Trump,” loudly snapping his fingers.
Petro: “Humanity has a primary offramp, and it’s to alter Trump in numerous methods. The simplest method could also be by Trump himself–the simplest. If not, take out Trump.”
PRIMERA SALIDA Y ES CAMBIAR A TRUMP DE DIVERSAS MANERAS. PUEDE SER POR EL MISMO TRUMP, LA MáS FáCIL, SI NO SACA LA TRUMP.” (Be aware: Each X and Google translate the remark as “take out Trump.” The MRC translation is “eliminate Trump.”
Coronell, was shaken by the interview, posting afterward (by way of translation), “I’m leaving extra frightened than once I arrived.”
Me voy más preocupado de lo que llegué
— Daniel Coronell (@DCoronell) October 21, 2025
Video by way of the Media Analysis Heart’s Jorge Bonilla:
JUST IN: Colombia’s President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if @realDonaldTrump will not change, the answer is to “eliminate Trump” pic.twitter.com/JzRYHGPIzX
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 21, 2025
On Sunday, Trump posted about Petro:
President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an unlawful drug chief strongly encouraging the large manufacturing of medication, in large and small fields, throughout Colombia. It has grow to be the largest enterprise in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to cease it, regardless of massive scale funds and subsidies from the USA which can be nothing greater than a long run rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The aim of this drug manufacturing is the sale of large quantities of product into the USA, inflicting dying, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and really unpopular chief, with a contemporary mouth towards America, higher shut up these killing fields instantly, or the USA will shut them up for him, and it received’t be performed properly. Thanks on your consideration to this matter! President Donald J. Trump
Excerpt from the Guardian on the battle between Petro and Trump:
Colombia has recalled its ambassador to Washington amid a livid disagreement between the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, and Donald Trump over lethal US strikes on boats within the Caribbean.
The row took a pointy flip this weekend when Petro accused the US of “murdering” a Colombian fisher in an assault on a vessel in its territorial waters. Petro and his administration mentioned the mid-September strike was a “direct menace to nationwide sovereignty” and that the sufferer was a “lifelong fisherman” and a “humble human being”.
In response, Trump, who has claimed such assaults are designed to cease drug-smuggling to the US, referred to as Petro an “unlawful drug vendor” and vowed to finish help funds to Colombia, one of many largest recipients of US counter-narcotics help. He additionally ordered Petro to “shut up” drug cultivation websites, saying if not “the USA will shut them up for him, and it received’t be performed properly”. Talking onboard Air Power One, Trump added that he would announce new tariffs on Colombian items.
…Relations soured firstly of Trump’s second time period. Days after Trump’s inauguration Colombia initially refused to simply accept navy flights carrying deportees, prompting the US president to threaten tariffs and sanctions. Months later, Washington revoked Petro’s visa after he urged US troopers to disobey Trump at a pro-Palestine rally in New York, telling them “disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity.”
In September, the US then declared that Colombia was “failing” to satisfy its worldwide drug management obligations, decertifying it for the primary time in practically 30 years.
Excerpt from report by El Pais published Sunday (by way of translation):
Following the latest navy motion by the USA in Caribbean waters, a ship that, in line with the Donald Trump administration, was destroyed on September sixteenth. It was believed to be transporting medicine to the USA.
Within the assault, a Colombian man recognized by President Gustavo Petro as a “fisherman, not a drug trafficker” was reportedly killed.
Nonetheless, the media outlet El Tiempo discovered that Alejandro Andrés Carranza, higher generally known as “Coroncoro,” was allegedly concerned within the theft of 264 weapons from the Santa Marta Metropolitan Police.
The incident reportedly occurred nearly a decade in the past, between March and September 2015 , when the Prosecutor’s Workplace uncovered what seemed to be an unlawful operation inside the police power itself. The scandal was huge because of the massive variety of firearms seized from unlawful teams that disappeared from the Sijín’s proof warehouse.
…Led by the nineteenth Sectional Prosecutor’s Workplace of Magdalena, along with the CTI (Prison Investigation Unit), seven folks have been arrested: Main Rolando Pinzón García, who was serving as head of the Sijín (Nationwide Investigation Unit) on the time; 5 uniformed officers of varied ranks; and one civilian: Alejandro Andrés Carranza Medina, alias “Coroncoro.”
‘Croncoro’ was the one civilian who pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit against the law, embezzlement by appropriation, falsification of a public doc, and aggravated theft, in reference to the weapons incident.
Years later, his title can be talked about once more, this time when President Gustavo Petro himself defended him after the US assault on the boat he was touring on…
