The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, summoned the Colombian ambassador to the United States, Daniel García-Peña, for consultations amid the worsening diplomatic crisis with the American government.
“The ambassador is already in Bogotá. In the next few hours the national government will inform the decisions taken in this regard”, says the note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the South American country.
In diplomatic language, the movement is considered a crisis and protest. Relations between the two countries have reached their lowest level in recent history and have been worsening since Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January.
On Sunday (19), he said the United States would cease “large-scale payments and subsidies” to the South American nation.
“The purpose of producing this drug is to sell large quantities of the product in the United States, causing death, destruction and chaos,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“These death camps had better be closed immediately, or the United States will close them, and it will not be done pleasantly,” Trump continued.
It is not yet known exactly which payments Trump is referring to.
Colombia was once one of the biggest recipients of American aid in the Western Hemisphere, but the flow of money was suddenly reduced this year with the closure of USAID, the humanitarian assistance arm of the American government.
In response to Trump, Gustavo Petro made a publication X on Sunday (19) in which he called Donald Trump a
Last month, the United States revoked the visa of Colombia’s president after Gustavo Petro joined a pro-Palestinian rally in New York and urged American soldiers to disobey Trump’s orders.
The president of Colombia is a harsh critic of Trump’s performance at the international level and has criticized the actions of the American military in the Caribbean Sea. Petro argues that bombings against small boats injure
