“Trump is deceived by (sic) his lodges and advisors. The main enemy that drug trafficking had in Colombia, was in the 21st century, the one who discovered its relations with the political power of Colombia. That was me,” wrote Petro in dead.

In Trump's opinion, drug trafficking is “Colombia's biggest business and Petro does nothing to stop it” despite US aid, payments for which he said “will stop being made to Colombia” as of today.

“I recommend that Trump read Colombia carefully and determine which side the narcos are on and which the Democrats are on,” Petro responded in his message on X.

The Colombian president has been repeating for weeks that under his government “the growth rate of coca leaf crops has been reduced to almost zero,” in response to the Trump administration's decision on September 15 to remove Colombia from the list of countries that are producing results in the fight against drugs.

Controversy over attacks on boats in the Caribbean

In addition to the discussions about Colombia's results against drug trafficking, Relations between the two countries have been strained by Petro's criticism of missile attacks on boats allegedly leaving Venezuela loaded with drugs.

This Saturday,Petro asked the Attorney General's Office to “act immediately” regarding the possibility that an alleged narco-boat attacked by the US on September 16 in the Caribbean Sea was Colombian, and accused that country of “murder” in the death of a fisherman who was doing his job, whom he identified as “Alejandro Carranza, who has not returned home” in the city of Santa Marta.

“Officials of the US government have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. The fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to drug traffickers and his daily activity was fishing (…) We await explanations from the US government,” Petro added in another message on to the IV Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) to be held on November 9 and 10 in Santa Marta.