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Data 182025 visit t mobile.com Colombia's President Gustavo Petro and Colombian leaders, senators, ministers are powerfully punching back at Donald Trump. After Donald Trump maligned and defamed Petro and Colombia in general, saying that Colombia now is a narco terrorist like state, saying it's led by Gustavo Petro who Donald Trump labeled a drug dealer and Colombia is united. Don't you dare call President Petro a drug dealer. He's done more to try to fight back against drug trafficking, not just in the country but in the region and has been a solid ally with the United States military in order to stop the actual drug trafficking taking place in South America and in the Caribbean. So what are you doing attacking Petro? Let's take a look at what President Petro said. Let's take a look at what the ministers in Colombia are saying. And then Petro gave a very powerful speech I want to share with you as well. Here's what Petro posted moments ago. He wrote the following in response to Donald Trump's ridiculous post. Mr. Trump, Columbia has never been rude to the USA. On the contrary, it has greatly admired its culture. But you are rude and ignorant toward Columbia. He goes, you need to read the history right here. Read 100 Years of Solitude and maybe you can learn something. I don't do business like you do. Yes, I am a socialist. I believe in aid and the common good and in the common of Humanity, the greatest of all life put in danger by you and your oil. I'm not a merchant then, much less a drug trafficker. In my heart there is no greed. I can never get along with greed. A Mafioso is a human being who embodies the best of capitalism, greed. And I am the opposite. I am a lover of life and therefore a millennial warrior for life. Greed flees from us because life is more powerful. And then you had Petro repost the following from someone there by the name of Ben Norton. Petro responds to Donald Trump's attack on him by saying Trump is a maniac. While waging war on Venezuela, he now threatens to attack Colombia too. Although he doesn't even know how to spell Columbia correctly. Donald Trump spelled it four times. C O L U, M B I A. Trump falsely claims that Colombian President Gustavo Petro is a drug dealer. This is a total lie. Now he's threatene threatening sanctions and attacks and imperial psycho. An imperial psycho is what President Gustavo Petro is calling Donald Trump. He also reposted the following message. A head of state cannot so lightly presume to tell a President of Columbia that he is a leader of drug trafficking. It is unacceptable, disrespectful. The vulgar mishandling of the pain we have endured as a nation as a result of that terrible scourge must be rejected Now. This all started with over the weekend, Gustavo Petro and the President of Columbia saying that those boats that Donald Trump has been attacking, those fishing boats in the Caribbean, one of them was Colombian. This is what he says. That boat attacked on September 16 was Colombian, had an engine on top as a sign of damage and was turned off. Presumably it was in Colombian waters. Who was there was a lifelong fisherman, Alejandro Carranza, who has not returned to his home. Alert to the Attorney General of the nation, I request you act immediately, grant immediate protection to the victim families and associate them, if they wish, with the victims of Trinidad and Tobago to initiate legal actions in the world and in the justice system of the United States. In other words, war crimes have been committed against innocent fishermen in Colombia. We also know that innocent fishermen from Trinidad and Tobago were also killed in these war crimes being committed by the United States of America. We're clearly seeing now why that four star decorated admiral who was the commanding navy leader in Latin America suddenly quit last week. It's becoming increasingly obvious. More on that. I'll tie this all together. But after President Petro said, you just killed innocent Colombians, Donald. Donald Trump responded. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drug in big and small fields all over Columbia. It's become the biggest business in Colombia by far and Petro does nothing to stop it. Despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term ripoff of America. As of today, these payments or any other form of payment or subsidies will no longer be made to Colombia. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States causing death, destruction. And having Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately or the United States will close them up for him and it won't be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump, on behalf of the normal people in the United States that are still left, let me send this message to President Petro, to the President Gustavo Petro and to all the other leaders out there. Donald Trump is a horrible human being, okay? He is a vile piece of trash in the Oval Office. And what many Americans think, tens of millions, millions of us think, is that this guy is a despicable tyrant who is making our country weaker. And on behalf of normal Americans who don't support war crimes, we apologize to you for his despicable war crimes and the behavior that's being done in our country's name. Because we're also learning about this huge buildup of naval assets in the Caribbean. There were over 200 military flights conducted in the area between August 15 and October 15, per a CNN review of flight data. The missions were carried carried out by 83 separate aircraft as the United States seeks to intimidate the region, including intelligence gathering planes and tankers used to refuel jets midair. Several intelligence gathering assets may also have been diverted from surveillance operations in Eastern Europe, where we were supporting Ukraine, to the Caribbean so that Donald Trump can try to bully and threaten war on places like Venezuela and Colombia. Very different. Venezuela is being run by a dictator tyrant. President Petro. Gustavo Petro is someone who the U. S was allied with. He showed up in the White House with former President Biden. He's someone who's been actually tough on drugs, not just in Colombia, but in the region. And I also want to say one thing as well. Fentanyl is not coming in from Colombia, nor is it coming in from Venezuela. A lot of it's being manufactured in the United States. Some of it's being manufactured in Mexico, a lot of it's being manufactured in China and it's being shipped to the United States. So Trump's attempt to blame Fentanyl on Venezuela and Colombia, it's just belied by the facts, like it's utterly false, what he is doing. And Trump's trying to create an enemy, to create pretext for war. Pretext for war, I want to say, show you this from Armando Bendadi, who is the minister, the interior minister. Here's how he describes it. Interior minister of Colombia. He goes like, we're in the fourth dimension here. The most powerful president on planet Earth from the country that consumes the most, tells the President, Gustavo Petro, who has fought the hardest against drug trafficking since forever, that he is the leader of drug trafficking in the region that is mocking the families who lost their loved ones, the members of the public force who have lost their lives in the war against the mafias. But everything that is wrong is susceptible to getting worse. Then some Latino dog washers from the United States come out who just mess with Petro Gustavo, demand raising tariffs, decertification, invasion, showing the little gallantry and maturity on the issue for handling in this country. Then you had another senator, Martha Piu. She goes, listen, President Trump, we are Colombia, not Colombia. Spell it right, you don't even know the name of our country. From the Senate of Columbia. I categorically and energetically rejected the unfounded, disrespectful and dangerous misinformed accusations issued by Donald Trump against Pedro Gustavo and against the Colombian state. Colombia does not kneel before the threats or blackmail, no matter where they come from. We are a sovereign nation that has paid with blood the price of war against drug trafficking that has been waged for decades, many times under rules imposed by others. While in the north, the consumption that fuels this chain of death, death does not stop. The government of President Gustavo Pedro is without a doubt one of those that has most forcefully confronted the structural roots of drug trafficking in Colombia. Voluntary crop substitution, social justice for historically forgotten regions, an environmental approach, and dismantling of criminal networks through a policy of human security. The figures prove it. Seizures have increased, the economic power of the mafias has been hit, and a paradigm shift has been initiated, and that for years was postponed by the complicity and double standards of certain sectors. President Trump, here is the honest and hardworking people. Stop the consumption in your country, stop bombing innocent fishermen and capture the real narcos who are in Dubai, is what she says. A lot of other senators in Colombia who are echoing that message right here. And more powerful statements from Gustavo Petro right there.
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I want to share with you this message from Gustav Petro. I think it's a very powerful one. He gave a speech over the weekend and here he talks about Trump using fentanyl as the pretext in order to go after Colombia and Venezuela. He goes, in reality, Trump just wants the oil from Venezuela. That's what this is really about. And then Petro makes his powerful statement. If you have family members who are missing, give us a call because Trump is going after innocent fishermen. He's killing people Call the office. We have to deal with these war crimes. Here, play this clip.
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What the United States is doing is that fentanyl consumption is increasing. It is an internal policy of the United States that it must address to save its society. But by addressing the issue in the Caribbean Sea, which has nothing to do with fentanyl, what the United States is producing is, what it wants is the oil of Venezuela and Guyana. The oil grid is what is behind the strategy that is launching missiles at fishermen. There are already fishermen from the island of Trinidad and Tobago who died under a missile. There is already the video of a boat that was not sailing the sea, but had its engines. Engines lifted and therefore was stationary, which was hit by a missile. We still don't know the exact point. There are already young fishermen who left their homes in Santa Marta and on Tan Ono and returned. It is not yet time to say anything definitive, but we are concerned because their families are calling. I ask all the families where their children or husbands are not returning home in a strange manner, in places where there are ports, to immediately notify the authorities and we will see what has happened to them. Because if what is happening is that any of the Colombians have died under the missiles, ask all the human rights lawyers that today we apologize because the Colombian state murdered and persecuted them in past decades to help us establish internationally and nationally the claims and complaints if Colombians have been killed by the missiles. Colombia approved the resolution that all drug policies must adhere to human rights.
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And then as part of this speech, Petro's like, look, when Biden was in office, we were able to have arguments. We can talk back and forth. We could have adult conversation. He goes, trump doesn't want to talk. Trump has already decided what the outcome is, that he wants to invade Venezuela, that he wants to take over Colombia, that he has his decided outcome and he's just going to go and make up whatever he wants, regardless of the facts. Here, let's play this clip. This is. We put this through AI so we can translate it into English for you. Here, play this clip.
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So, etc. The students talk about arguments that the presidents were going to talk about. Arguments. How naive. With Biden, I could talk about arguments, but with Trump, they haven't even met him. The arguments are useless. We are facing a government that has a. A predetermined purpose and only uses data if it serves them. Did that false data serve the Trump administration to discredit us and say that then the United States could be flooded with cocaine, which is not true because it is Being flooded with fentanyl. And fentanyl is not produced in Colombia. It is not produced in Latin America. It is produced in the large industrial apparatus of the United States and in other industrial apparatuses. It is an excuse poorly constructed because here I demonstrate with arguments that the potential for cocaine production is different. And let's go to this chart. This chart a bit complicated. This chart was made by the Minister of Defense, Retired General Pedro Sanchez. It is authored by him based on the data obviously official of hectares. The crepa measures are not. This is key to knowing if the government's policies affect effective or not regarding cocaine production in Colombia. This bar shows the growth in the year 2021 of coca leaf crops. In 2021 they grew 43% 2022, 13% 2023, 9.8% 2024 3.
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Now, as you also know, this comes on the same week that the four star Admiral Alvin Halsey, the head of Southern Command, is stepping down after less than than a year in his position. He was the commanding admiral in the Latin American region. And this is the area where the shooting of the fishing boats was taking place by the United States. The war crimes were taking place. I will show you this. This is from Admiral Halsey when he was a Vice admiral at the time in 2023, speaking in the Concordia America lecture series over here. And he talks about the importance this is in 2023 of cooperation in the region with countries like Colombia. Here, play this clip. What do you think are the most important concerns that we actually are dealing with or your particular SOUTHCOM are dealing with today?
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So thanks for that question as well. So first of all, I'd like to share that SOUTHCOM has been building partnerships in this region now for close to 60 years. And we look at our, if you were to look at our mission, mission statement, two things that really stand out rapidly responding to crises and then building part of the capacity, regional capacity. So how do we do that? We do it through security cooperation. Security cooperation is a way that we engage with our partners, by and large. Now how do we do that? It goes back to the fact of foreign military sales, foreign military financing, security assistance, assistance funding as well. And so by doing that, we're able to engage and build partner capacity. That's very important as you look at different threats in the region. So as we assist partners in developing that military capability, what that does for us. And at the same time, we, we stick with them. We don't just go away. We got to be on the field and engage. Right? So we assist them with training, the necessary training to do the sustainment and maintenance. And by doing that and again on the field, engage with our partners, building that trust, we're able to enable them to counter that malign activity. And so that's kind of the main focus right now, security cooperation.
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And here he is again saying that.
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At US Sub of the command, we are one of the six geographic combative commanders for the Department of Defense. So in that role, we're responsible for overseeing the contingency planning operations as well as a security cooperation in the Central America, South America and the Caribbean. In our neighborhood, we like to say, and we refer to it as our neighborhood because of the physical proximity, the shared values and culture and also the shared economic and security concerns.
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Now, finally, I'll just show you this from April 23, 2023. This is former President Biden when he met with, with Gustavo. You can just see how different these times are. He goes, thank you President Petro Gustavo, for your commitment to addressing climate change and promoting democratic values across the Americas. When Colombia and the United States stand together, there's nothing we can't accomplish. So just think where we went from Biden to where we are now under Trump with war crimes being committed and the worst possible relations with our four star admiral quitting and hell is breaking loose. Here, play this clip.
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Mr. President, welcome. Great to see you here. Oval Office in Washington. I really want to thank you for your outspoken and strong commitment to peace and human rights across America.
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You speak to it all the time.
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Together, Columbia and the United States effort to deal with climate change, we're going to make a 500 million dollar commitment preserving the Amazon. We're also working together to counter narcotics trafficking and address historic levels of migration. And as we begin the next century of our partnership, I believe we can do even more, deepen and develop cooperation. So I want to thank you again for taking the time to be here and look forward to our conversation.
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