The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, assured this Tuesday that the US president, Donald Trump, has a “senile brain” because, according to him, he called him a “drug trafficking outlaw”, in a new episode of the verbal escalation between the two.
“The title that Trump assigns me as a drug trafficking outlaw is a reflection of his senile brain. He sees real libertarians as narco-terrorists because we don’t give him coal or oil,” Petro said in a long message on X in which he did not specify when the American president called him that.
On Sunday, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that, like Venezuela, “Colombia is also very sick,” and in reference to Petro, he said the country is “governed by a sick man who likes to make 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 this means that there could be a United States operation in Colombia, like the one carried out in Venezuela against Nicolás Maduro, who was detained with his wife Cilia Flores and both brought before a judge in New York, Trump responded: “That sounds good to me.”
Petro attributed his friction with Trump to the fact that he does not agree with “the irrationality of capitalism” that is “leading humanity, just out of greed, to extinction” due to its desire to extract more and more natural resources such as oil and coal.
“They want to turn us into colonies. Killing humanity is killing their own children,” he added.
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During December 2025, the US president warned Petro that he would be “next” after Maduro, whom the United States accused of leading the Clan of the Suns, an alleged international drug trafficking network.
In his message, Petro denied the existence of that entity and stated that there is no evidence that it operates as a real drug trafficking organization in Venezuela, a position that coincides with the new accusation presented this Tuesday by the US Department of Justice, which eliminated most of the allusions to that group and stopped identifying Maduro as its leader.
‘Everything for oil’: Petro points out that the US wants resources from Venezuela
“What it indicates is that they kidnapped Maduro to keep Venezuela’s oil,” said Petro, referring to the arrest of the Venezuelan president in Caracas and his subsequent presentation before a judge in New York.
His chancellor, Rosa Villavicencio, agreed with Petro, who today said at a press conference in Bogotá that “this entire conflict has to do with economic interests.”
“The need for oil for a strong economy like that of the United States implies that it makes these searches and that based on the doctrine that they put forward, which is the prevalence of its particular economic interests as a country, it passes and crosses the red lines of the principles and the relationship between nations and respect for sovereignty,” said the chancellor.
The Colombian president called for a demonstration in Bogotá this Wednesday “for sovereignty” and warned that he is willing to defend the country against what he described as an “illegitimate threat.”
With information from EFE
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