Trump threatens Petro and warns him that he will be “next” after Nicolás Maduro in his fight against drug trafficking

Donald Trump threatened the President of Colombia this Wednesday, Gustavo Petroby warning him that “it will be next” in his campaign against drug trafficking, which is currently focused on Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela.

The American president thus places Colombia in the crosshairs of Operation South Lance which he ordered with the argument of fighting drug trafficking in Latin America and which triggered tensions with the Maduro government.

“Colombia produces a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories. They produce cocaine and sell it directly to the United States. SO
“You better wake up or you’ll be next,” he said from the Oval Office.

In this sense, he assured that Petro “is going to have big problems if he does not see reason”, reiterating that “he will be next because we don’t like people killing others”.

“I hope you are listening,” insisted the tenant of the White House, who harshly criticized Gustavo Petro for his “quite hostile attitude towards the United States”.

“Drug trafficking boss”

It must be remembered that last September Trump removed Colombia from the list of countries cooperating in the fight against drugs and sanctioned Petro, which he accuses of being a “drug trafficking boss”.

The Colombian president did not hesitate to respond to Trump, whom he defined as “a very uninformed man from Colombia.”

“It’s a shame because it lets down the country that knows the best about cocaine trafficking. It seems that its interlocutors are completely deceiving it,” he said.

Petro indicated that during his mandate, there were “1,446 fights on the ground against the mafias (…) and 13 bombings in an attempt to locate their bosses, many with shared military intelligence.”

Furthermore, he noted that under his government “2,700 tons of cocaine” were seized and stressed “that we are going to approach 4,000 tons” of this substance in the coming months of 2026, until the expiration of his mandate in August.

In this sense, Petro boasted of “the largest seizure (of cocaine) in world history”.

Since September, US armed forces have destroyed more than twenty vessels allegedly laden with drugs in the Caribbean and Pacific, near Venezuela and Colombia, extrajudicially killing more than 80 crew members.

Trump promised that attacks on Venezuelan territory would begin “soon,” while Maduro called on his citizens to unite against U.S. threats and enlist in citizen militias.