President Donald Trump announced that the US suspended all payments and subsidies to Colombia, hours after an alleged drug boat was destroyed in the Pacific, in international waters, near the South American country.
“As of today we have suspended all payments to Colombia,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The president referred to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, as “a thug, a very bad guy,” ensuring that his country produces large quantities of drugs, which “pass through Mexico and they better watch it,” he added.
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Trump assured that “he will take very serious measures against him and his country, or what his country has become, which is a death trap.”
These statements and the announcement of the end of aid come amid the escalation of tensions between Bogotá and Washington due to the war that the United States has declared against drug trafficking.
The presence of US military ships and aircraft in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and the deadly attacks on vessels that Washington claims are transporting narcotics in these waters have provoked the rejection of governments such as Colombia and Venezuela, further raising tensions with the Trump Administration.
This Wednesday, the Pentagon also announced a new attack against an alleged drug boat, the first in waters off the Colombian coast in the Pacific.
With information from EFE.
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