Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued a stark warning to Donald Trump after the capture of Nicolas Maduro sent shockwaves around the world.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued a stark three-word warning to President Donald Trump amid ramped-up attacks against alleged drug trafficking in Latin America: “Come get me!”
“Come get me,” Petro said. “I’m waiting for you here. Don’t threaten me, I’ll wait for you right here if you want to.”
He continued, “I don’t accept invasions, missiles, or assassinations, only intel. Come speak here with intelligence, and we’ll receive you and talk face-to-face with facts, not lies. Stop getting lied to by Colombian political mafias who condemned us to 700,00 deaths and made us the world’s most unequal country.”
It comes after Trump appeared to hint at a possible military operation in Colombia, with a brutal two-word comment about the country’s “sick” leader who allegedly peddles cocaine to Americans.
The statement was made just one day after the U.S. executed a special forces raid in Venezuela, resulting in the capture of both Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, over alleged drug trafficking charges.
Maduro is sitting for his first hearing Monday morning in a Manhattan federal court, where police had to break up a brawl among protestors outside the courtroom.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro appears to taunt U.S. President Donald Trump, saying, “Come get me, coward! I’m waiting for you here.” pic.twitter.com/Qk3MfsfsqO
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Following Maduro and Flores’ arrest and extradition to New York City, Trump issued threats of military intervention to other South American countries, including Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, unless changes were made to address drug trafficking crime.
“He’s making cocaine,” Trump said Saturday of Petro, repeating his previous claims. “They’re sending it into the United States. So he does have to watch his a–.”
Critics questioned why Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted for drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in U.S. prison, days prior to Maduro’s capture.
At a press conference on Saturday, Trump was pressed on the pardon. He said Hernandez was “persecuted very unfairly.”
Trump suggested following Maduro’s arrest that the U.S. would “takeover” Venezuela amid transition, controlling its lucrative oil industry, which he made clear was one of the core objects of the military operations.
“The oil companies are going to go in and rebuild their system,” Trump said Sunday night. “It was the greatest theft in the history of America.
Source : https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/195133/colombia-petro-trump-maduro-taunt
