The White House said Thursday it was not aware of an alleged invitation of the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, for the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to visit his country, but he assured that republican he doesn’t like them comments of its Colombian counterpart.
This is what White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the day after Trump warned Petro that he would be “next”, in reference to the pressure his government is exerting against the chief of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
“I haven’t heard of this invitation. I’ll let the president say directly whether he would consider it. But regarding your comments yesterday regarding President Petro, you said very alarming and frankly insulting to the United States and the president doesn’t like that,” Leavitt said at a news conference.
Last week, through a message on X, Petro Petro invited Trump to go to Colombia to show him how they are being destroyed. cocaine laboratories, after the Republican warned that anyone who produces and trafficks drugs toward the United States “is subject to attack.”
“Come Mr. Trump to Colombia, I invite you, to participate in the destruction of 9 laboratories we do it daily so that cocaine does not reach the United States,” he said. Wednesday, Trump discarded in front of the press which projects I will talk to Petro soonarguing that it “has been quite hostile to the United States.”
“I hope you’re listening. He’ll be next.”» Trump added, referring to the US pressure campaign against Maduro, whom he accuses of running an international drug trafficking network. The US leader said Petro “is going to have big problems if you don’t realize” that Colombia “produces a lot of drugs. »
For his part, the Colombian president, in response to assetclaimed that the Republican “he is not informed” on the country. “Trump is a very poorly informed man about Colombia. It’s a shame because he dismisses the country that knows the most about cocaine trafficking. It seems that his interlocutors are completely deceiving him,” Petro said.
In September, the US administration removed Colombia from the list of countries that they cooperate in the fight against drugs and then sanctioned Petro, whom he accused of being a “leader of drug trafficking”.
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