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Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday helium would "take up arms" against the U.S. if it attacks his country, pursuing U.S. subject enactment successful Venezuela and the seizure and apprehension of President Nicolás Maduro.
Petro, a erstwhile subordinate of the leftist M-19 guerrilla question that demobilized successful the aboriginal 1990s, made the remarks successful a station connected X aft President Trump suggested Colombia could beryllium the adjacent people 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 interaction a limb again since the 1989 Peace Pact, but for the Homeland I volition instrumentality up arms again that I bash not want."
Petro besides rejected Trump’s accusations that helium is linked to drugs trafficking.
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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said helium 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," helium wrote. "I lone person arsenic assets my household location that I inactive wage for with my salary. My slope statements person been published. No 1 could accidental that I person spent much than my salary. I americium not greedy."
Petro's comments came aft Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One connected Sunday.
He warned that Colombia is "very sick too" and is "run by a sick antheral who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he’s not going to beryllium doing it precise long."
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President Donald Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro of being a "sick man" that sells cocaine to the 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 the U.S. would transportation retired an cognition successful Colombia, Trump replied, "It sounds bully to me," earlier pivoting to erstwhile again explicit involvement successful annexing Greenland.
Trump’s threats echoed remarks helium made successful December, arsenic antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, erstwhile helium warned Petro that helium "better omniscient up" oregon hazard being targeted next.
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Trump has labeled Petro an "illegal cause dealer" successful the past and aboriginal doubled down, calling the Colombian president a "lunatic."
Petro has been 1 of Trump’s fiercest critics successful the region, condemning U.S. strikes connected what helium described arsenic suspected drug-smuggling vessels successful the Caribbean. Petro antecedently claimed galore of those killed successful the strikes were "poor fishermen" forced into the cause commercialized retired of necessity.
In November, helium called Trump a "barbarian" and concisely halted quality sharing with 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 commercialized is mostly controlled by amerciable equipped groups, including the Gulf Clan, the ELN and dissident FARC factions.
Petro warned that U.S. bombing would radicalize agrarian communities, saying campesinos would go "thousands of guerrillas successful the mountains."
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As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, the Trump medication revoked the Colombian president’s visa implicit 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," work a station connected the U.S. State Department's X relationship astatine the time. "We volition revoke Petro’s visa owed to his reckless and incendiary actions."
Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House for comment.
Emma Bussey is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked astatine The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, crossed desks including foreign, politics, news, athletics and culture.
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