Final month, Washington introduced it had decertified Colombia as an ally within the combat in opposition to medication.
Colombia hit again by halting arms purchases from america, its largest army accomplice.
The US final month revoked Petro’s US visa after he spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York on the sidelines of the UN Normal Meeting.
In his put up on Sunday, Trump additionally appeared to trace at some type of US intervention in Colombia, though he didn’t elaborate.
“Petro, a low rated and really unpopular chief, with a recent mouth towards America, higher shut up these killing fields instantly, or america will shut them up for him, and it will not be completed properly,” Trump wrote.
Since coming to energy in 2022, Petro has championed a paradigm shift within the US-led warfare on medication, away from pressured eradication to concentrate on the social issues that gasoline drug trafficking.
Beneath his watch, cultivation of coca, the uncooked materials of cocaine, has elevated by about 70 %, in keeping with Colombian authorities and United Nations estimates.