Gustavo Petro calls for a demonstration for sovereignty in Colombia after tensions with Trump
The Colombian president warned he would take up arms to defend his country's sovereignty against Trump's
“We'll see you on Wednesday in all the plazas of “Colombia, at 4 pm. Now to defend national sovereignty,” the president stated on his They were presented before a judge in New York today.
Trump criticizes Petro
On Sunday, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that, like Venezuela, “Colombia is also very sick,” and referring to Petro, he said that the country is “ruled by a sick man who likes to manufacture cocaine and sell it to the United States, and that's something he's not going to be doing for a long time.”
When asked if that This means there could be a US operation in Colombia, to which Trump responded: “That sounds good to me.” In response to these comments, Petro threatened on Monday to take up arms again if necessary, as he did during his years with the M-19 guerrilla group, to defend his country's sovereignty from the “illegitimate threat” of the US president.

