President Trump has shifted his foreign policy focus to Latin America with a decisive new move targeting one of the region’s most polarizing figures.
Declaring a full freeze on U.S. assistance to Colombia, Trump accused the country’s far-left president, Gustavo Petro, of turning the nation’s narcotics industry into its most profitable export.
In a Truth Social post, Trump charged that Petro had transformed coca cultivation into Colombia’s “biggest business” while collecting “large-scale payments and subsidies from the USA.”
“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia,” Trump wrote.
He added, “AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA.”
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