United States President Donald Trump has threatened his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, saying “he will be next.” in his so-called campaign against drug traffickingwhich currently focuses on Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela.
“Colombia produces … a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories. They produce cocaine, as you know, and sell it directly to the United States. “Then you better wake up or you’ll be next.” underlined from the Oval Office.
In this sense, he assured that “he will have big problems if he does not see reason”, reiterating that “he will be next because we do not like people to kill others”. “I hope you’re listening.” the tenant of the White House declaredafter criticizing Petro “was rather hostile to the United States”.
The Colombian president responded to Trump during the Council of Ministers, broadcast live, despite the fact that “everyone is telling him not to do it” and saying that he had to “explain to the people what is happening.”
SO, declared that the President of the United States “He is a very ill-informed Colombian.” “It’s a shame because it throws into the trash the country that knows the best about cocaine trafficking. “It seems that his interlocutors are completely deceiving him,” he added. Petro said that during his mandate there were “1,446 ground battles against the mafias (…) and thirteen bombings in an attempt to locate their leaders, many with shared military intelligence.”
In addition, he reported that under his government “2,700 tons of cocaine” were seized and stressed “that we will approach 4,000 tons” of this substance in the coming months of 2026. until the expiration of his mandate in the month of August.
In this sense, Petro boasted of “the largest seizure (of cocaine) in world history” and assured that “there was no such record behind it.”
These statements have been added Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sánchezwho declared that “these tons are more or less equivalent to some 32 billion doses which did not reach the streets of consuming countries”.
About The Author
