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Colombia Protests Trump’s Drug Trafficking Allegations
(MENAFN) On Tuesday, Colombia’s foreign minister declared that the nation had dispatched a formal letter of protest to the United States after President Donald Trump accused his Colombian counterpart of involvement in narcotics trafficking.
During a press briefing, Rosa Villavicencio explained that she would meet with US charge d’Affaires, John McNamara, to deliver a “(diplomatic) note, rejecting these insults, threats” directed at President Gustavo Petro.
Emphasizing Petro’s legitimacy, she highlighted that “an offence against the president is an offence to our country and a disregard for all the democratic processes that we have carried out.”
Her comments followed Trump’s direct warning to President Petro, in which he accused him of being a drug trafficker.
While speaking to journalists aboard Air Force One, Trump remarked that a possible military action against Colombia “sounds good to me.”
He went further, labeling Colombia a “very sick” nation governed by a “sick man,” and alleged—without evidence—that Petro was engaged in “making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” Trump added that Petro “is not going to be doing it very long.”
President Petro has firmly rejected these accusations, insisting that he has never been involved in drug trafficking.
During a press briefing, Rosa Villavicencio explained that she would meet with US charge d’Affaires, John McNamara, to deliver a “(diplomatic) note, rejecting these insults, threats” directed at President Gustavo Petro.
Emphasizing Petro’s legitimacy, she highlighted that “an offence against the president is an offence to our country and a disregard for all the democratic processes that we have carried out.”
Her comments followed Trump’s direct warning to President Petro, in which he accused him of being a drug trafficker.
While speaking to journalists aboard Air Force One, Trump remarked that a possible military action against Colombia “sounds good to me.”
He went further, labeling Colombia a “very sick” nation governed by a “sick man,” and alleged—without evidence—that Petro was engaged in “making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” Trump added that Petro “is not going to be doing it very long.”
President Petro has firmly rejected these accusations, insisting that he has never been involved in drug trafficking.
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