Trump ends Colombia aid over drug boom DW 10/19/2025
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Trump ends Colombia aid over drug boom  DW  10/19/2025
"The United States would slash funding to Colombia because the country's leader "does nothing to stop" drug production, President Donald Trump said Sunday. "The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc," he said in a Truth Social post. He warned President Gustavo Petro "better close up" drug operations "or the United States will close them up for him, and it won't be done nicely.""
"Earlier Sunday, Petro accused the United States of violating his nation's sovereignty and killing a fisherman, after Trump said US forces had carried out another strike as part of his controversial military clamp down against "narcoterrorists." "US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters," Colombian leader Gustavo Petro said on Saturday in a statement on X."
President Donald Trump threatened to slash US funding to Colombia, accusing President Gustavo Petro of failing to stop drug production and linking that production to death and destruction in the United States. Trump warned that Colombia must close drug operations or the United States would do so, potentially by force. Relations between Bogotá and Washington have deteriorated after a visa revocation, Petro's participation in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, and US claims of Colombian noncooperation in the drug war. Petro accused US forces of violating Colombian sovereignty and killing fisherman Alejandro Carranza in a September strike and demanded explanations.
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