Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro defended Colombia this Monday (20) after US President Donald Trump said he would increase tariffs on the South American country and stop all payments to it.
The Chavista leader compared the countries’ relationship to a bond of brothers: “You know that we are one; we are Siamese twins, and everything that has to do with Colombia has to do with Venezuela, and everything that has to do with Venezuela has to do with Colombia”
“If they play in Venezuela, they play in Colombia. We are a single homeland at heart, and these are not just empty words; I know what I’m saying,” he said.
Trump also called the leftist Colombian president a “leader of illegal drug trafficking” on Sunday (19), which Petro’s government described as offensive.
Trump’s comments about the US leader marked a new low in relations between Washington e Bogota.
Petro opposed U.S. military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean that killed dozens of people on board, most of them on U.S. charges that they were sailing from Venezuela to transport drugs north.
