President Gustavo Petro repudiates the decertification of Colombia in the fight against drug trafficking

Published at: 18/09/2025 05:27 PM

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, repudiated the decision of the United States government to decertify the New Granada country in the fight against drug trafficking and issued a series of direct statements to his US counterpart, Donald Trump.

“I consider it an injustice against the country that has put the most blood to stop cocaine in the United States and Europe,” said the Colombian president, international media reports.

“If anyone has faced drug trafficking, it has been me, at the expense of my safety and that of my family,” he said.

He argued that Washington preferred to ignore the figures and adopt the ideology of “the extreme right people in Colombian Miami, who live close to those who now govern the United States.”

He also pointed out that the political power based in Miami and adjacent to Trump “comes from a strong alliance between drug traffickers and Colombian politicians.” “Be very careful,” he warned him. “I invite you to remove those friendships from Florida (...) to those gangsters friends in politics,” he said.

President Petro dismissed the arguments about Bogotá's alleged failures in the indicators of the fight against drugs, and presented statistical figures, specifically, the seizure of 889 tons of drugs over the past year.

“Before, this figure was never reached,” recalled the Colombian president, “and it was less with his friend... I was four times more than his friend (Álvaro) Uribe,” he argued.

He stressed that giving “the order to seize everything that is crossed without threatening any other country in the world, not even his own”.

He also made an indirect reference to the US naval deployment close to Venezuela's territorial waters, urging Trump to “come here and talk, it's not invading countries,” and so he concluded that Washington's bellicose attitude represents a failure of anti-drug policy.

Regarding the internal situation caused by drug trafficking in the United States, he said that American youth are “being killed”, in addition to counting more than 100,000 deaths due to fentanyl overdoses in the United States, a figure that he assured could amount to one million deaths, together with another million deaths in Colombia due to the failed war in Washington.

Mazo News Team