This Friday (24), the United States sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his wife Verónica Alcocer, their son Nicolás Petro and the Colombian Interior Minister, Armando Benedetti.
The names of those sanctioned were added to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), an agency of the Treasury Department. They are subjected to economic sanctions.
Citizens and companies of the are, in general, prohibited from carrying out any type of financial or commercial transaction with those listed.
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“And effectively, this measure was brought to me by the government of the same society that we have helped so much to contain the consumption of cocaine”, continued Petro. “A true paradox — but not a step back, and never on your knees,” he concluded.
Indeed, Bernie Moreno’s threat was fulfilled, I and my children and my wife entered the OFAC list.
My lawyer in my defense will be Dany Kovalik from the USA.
Fighting drug trafficking for decades and effectively brings me this measure of the government of society that…
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo)
Sanctioned by Venezuela
Between September 2024 and January 2025, OFAC imposed financial sanctions on 45 Venezuelan officials for their role in electoral fraud or repression.
Later, on June 1 of this year, the Treasury department included the names of more than 150 Venezuelans and three entities in the country. Among them, his wife and son, the vice president of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez and the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López.
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