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Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday he would "take up arms" against nan U.S. if it attacks his country, pursuing U.S. subject action successful Venezuela and nan seizure and apprehension of President Nicolás Maduro.
Petro, a erstwhile personnel of nan leftist M-19 guerrilla activity that demobilized successful nan early 1990s, made nan remarks successful a post connected X aft President Trump suggested Colombia could beryllium nan adjacent target successful his administration’s warfare connected drugs.
"Although I person not been a subject man, I cognize astir warfare and clandestinity," Petro wrote successful a station translated to English from Spanish. "I swore not to touch a limb again since nan 1989 Peace Pact, but for nan Homeland I will return up arms again that I do not want."
Petro besides rejected Trump’s accusations that he is linked to narcotics trafficking.
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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said he would "take up arms again" if President Trump came aft him. (Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images)
"I americium not illegitimate, nor americium I a narco," he wrote. "I only person arsenic assets my family location that I still salary for pinch my salary. My slope statements person been published. No 1 could opportunity that I person spent much than my salary. I americium not greedy."
Petro's comments came aft Trump said to reporters aboard Air Force One connected Sunday.
He warned that Colombia is "very sick too" and is "run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and trading it to nan United States, and he’s not going to beryllium doing it very long."
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President Donald Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro of being a "sick man" that sells cocaine to nan U.S., which Petro denied. (Kevin Dietsch/Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
Trump besides claimed Petro has "cocaine mills and cocaine factories."
When asked straight whether nan U.S. would transportation retired an cognition successful Colombia, Trump replied, "It sounds bully to me," earlier pivoting to erstwhile again definitive liking successful annexing Greenland.
Trump’s threats echoed remarks he made successful December, arsenic antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, erstwhile he warned Petro that he "better wise up" aliases consequence being targeted next.
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Trump has branded Petro an "illegal supplier dealer" successful nan past and later doubled down, calling nan Colombian president a "lunatic."
Petro has been 1 of Trump’s fiercest critics successful nan region, condemning U.S. strikes connected what he described arsenic suspected drug-smuggling vessels successful nan Caribbean. Petro antecedently claimed galore of those killed successful nan strikes were "poor fishermen" forced into nan supplier waste and acquisition retired of necessity.
In November, he called Trump a "barbarian" and concisely halted intelligence sharing pinch Washington.
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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has been a fierce professional of President Trump. (LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)
Colombia’s narcotics waste and acquisition is mostly controlled by forbidden equipped groups, including nan Gulf Clan, nan ELN and dissident FARC factions.
Petro warned that U.S. bombing would radicalize agrarian communities, saying campesinos would go "thousands of guerrillas successful nan mountains."
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As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, nan Trump management revoked nan Colombian president’s visa complete alleged "reckless and incendiary actions."
"Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood connected a NYC thoroughfare and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence," publication a station connected nan U.S. State Department's X relationship astatine nan time. "We will revoke Petro’s visa owed to his reckless and incendiary actions."
Fox News Digital has reached retired to nan White House for comment.
Emma Bussey is simply a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked astatine The Telegraph pinch nan U.S. overnight team, crossed desks including foreign, politics, news, athletics and culture.
