The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia on Monday recalled its ambassador from the United States after President Donald Trump said that he will increase the South American tariffs and stop all its payments, in the outbreak of the US military on ships suspected of transporting drugs.
Trump also called Colombian President Gustavo Petron an “illegal drug leader” on Sunday, which Petro’s government said.
“Daniel Garcia-Pena, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States of America, has been recalled in consultation with President Gustavo Petro and is now in Bogota,” said the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “In the coming hours the national government will inform about the decisions taken.”
Trump’s drug boss marks a low point in relations between Washington and Bogota, which Trump accuses of being linked to the illegal drug trade.
Petro refused the US military to kill the ships in the Caribbean, which the Trump administration has seen as necessary to avoid the threat of countries connected to the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Many legal experts and human rights activists have condemned the actions of the military and questioned their solidarity, as the US sought to make drug dealers on boats illegal combatants.
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A great trading partner
Trump said financial aid to Colombia would be cut and details about the new amounts could be revealed Monday, but it was unclear which Prump Trump was referring to.
Colombia was once among the biggest recipients of western aid, but the flow of money suddenly collapsed this year with the closure of USAID, the government arm of the US government.
Colombia currently pays a 10 percent tariff on imports from the United States, a base rate set for most countries.
The US is Colombia’s TOP TRADITING PARTNER, and North America accounts for 35 percent of the South American country’s exports, according to the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Colombia, the main Exporter of oil, coal, coffee, flowers and bananas, sent a trade of $ 338 million, according to the US between January and July, according to the statistical government Agen.
‘DREAD AND KNOWLEDGE’
Petro on Sunday condemned the explosion of a boat that killed three people on Friday, saying that the boat belonged to a “humble family,” and not the US libelboard Rebel Army of Defense Hesseth for his comments.
“Mr. Trump, Colombia has never been food in the United States … but you have no respect and no knowledge in Colombia,” said Petro to X. “Since I’m the drug trafficker.”
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Petro promised to populate the growing regions of Coca in the country with massive social and military intervention, but the strategy brought little success.
He said the country’s efforts to “stop the North American public from getting their noses stuffed” with cocaine.
Growth in Coca plants
Republican and Democratic Administrations have sent billions in foreign aid to Colombia since the 1990s to eradicate illegal crops, bolstering the power of the poor and the poor at the bottom of the cocaine industry.
But Colombian court rulings ruled a US-funded program to spray COCA fields with the herbicide Glyphosate was harmful to the environment and farmers.
The amount of land in Colombia devoted to the cultivation of Coca, the base of cocaine, has almost tripled in the last ten years to 203,000 hectares, according to the latest report available from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
The US, which has built up its military presence in the Caribbean, has provided little information about the boat in the episode so far, including the amount of drugs it was carrying or any details of the people killed.
After the first strike, it was announced in September. Tren de Aragua emerged more than a decade ago from an illegal prison outside the state of Aragua.
Maduro and other government officials have repeatedly pointed to the United Nations, which they say shows traffickers trying to move only five percent of the cocaine produced in Colombia to Venezuela.
The latest UN report on drugs does not respond to Venezuela The role of the White House has fenced in the past months, and Mexico has been seen as the main source of deaths and byproducts, caused by the majority of deaths in the US in recent years.
US repatriates who survived the strike beat us
Democratic and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is among those seeking more information after the first reported incident resulted in 11 deaths.
“All these people were beaten without us knowing their names, without evidence of guilt,” Paul told NBC’s Meet the media per week.
The US chose not to keep the two survivors of one of the boats, but to send them back in recent days, to Colombia and Ecuador.
“The attacks on boats in the Caribbean were illegal. If the survivors appeared in court or in a military court that would be clarified immediately,” remocratic rep. Jim Him of Connecticut said.
