Trump called Colombia’s president an “illegal drug leader” on Sunday and pledged to end U.S. aid to the South American country, following the leader’s criticism of U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
Mr. Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro in a post on Truth Social of “encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields.”
Hours earlier, Petro accused the U.S. in a series of X posts of hitting a fishing vessel in a strike it carried out last month, not a boat carrying drugs as it had claimed at the time. The Colombian leader said a fisherman had been killed in the attack, saying that in doing so the U.S. had “invaded national territory.” He made a similar allegation earlier this month, claiming another boat that was struck by the U.S. military carried Colombian citizens — which the U.S. denied.
I lived in Columbia for several years. Their president is that corrupt, as well as so many others in high positions. Major drugs have been coming out of Columbia, for a long time. Thats kinda common knowledge though.
I’m curious what year he thinks it is, and whether he believes that Pablo Escobar is still alive
I would love to see the press simply ask him what year it is…
Your mom.
I wonder if the downvoter realizes that this was an actual answer that the white house gave a reporter recently.
Dunno. Following up on this, your mom.
To be fair, Colombia is still the biggest coca producer in the world, by a huuuge margin.
Do you have recent data? I could only find like up to 2023.
It seems that 2023 is the most recent year with open data
However, I found this on cocaine field erradication: Cocaine field erradication is at a low point, going from 130.1 thousand ha to 9.4 k ha.
Given that guerrillas and narcotrafic has only grown bigger in the last few years, I’m very confident the situation has only got worse since 2023, sadly.
Last I knew Coca-Cola was still importing shit tons of coco leaves every year to process in New Jersey (legally under permits)… not sure if that comes from Columbia or Peru though
How many acres of coca fields were eradicated in the US last year?
Who would stop him? Nobody stops Putin. Why would anyone stop Trump? Who would even dare to try?
Knowing how US operates, when someone is labeled a criminal/terrorist/bad, this means they don’t want to comply with US (exploitative) demands.
hmm I wonder why the cuban revolution occurred…
Why is this censored?
I didn’t think it’s censured so much as altering the text to read slightly differently, more honestly.
Maybe it’s about redaction of the files
Honestly, I just stopped trying to find rhyme or reason to stuff like that.
I think people’s brains have been so fried by information, they just do these things without thinking out of instinct or habit. There is no sense to be had.
Right but the person posting it (often) should be able to answer in this case.
It has something to do with “king” and “aged” but it still looks super awkward.
With the majority of drugs coming from China and often distributed through Mexico, trying to pin all this drug dealing on South America seems like a dumb move. I guess that is all they got because the real reason of regime change (aka toppling more countries) is not very palatable.
He knows his base is the same people he did cocaine with in the 80’s. They all remember Columbia being involved with cocaine trafficking, and are too old and batshit crazy to realize that’s no longer true
Columbia still produces the majority of the world’s cocaine. It’s just that China makes a lot of fentanyl.
Fuck Trump
So in the middle of planning his invasion of Venezuela, he noticed Colombia is right next door?
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