Donald Trump has threatened military action against Colombia after attacks in Venezuela, telling reporters the action “sounds good to me.”
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President Donald Trump has targeted Colombia as his next potential military target following his successful capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend.
speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. On January 5, Trump made some crazy remarks about Colombian President Gustavo Petro, shocking the Latin American diplomatic community.
“Colombia is also very sick and is run by a sick man who likes to make cocaine and sell it to the United States, and he won’t be doing that for much longer,” Donald Trump told a news conference, his scathing criticism clearly aimed at oil companies.
When asked directly by reporters whether the United States would take military action against Colombia, Trump responded without hesitation: “That sounds good to me.”
The threatening remarks came just a day after U.S. forces captured Maduro in a dramatic raid and sent the Venezuelan leader to New York to face drug trafficking charges in federal court.
Trump had previously issued a stern warning to oil companies at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago immediately following the Venezuela operation, telling reporters that the Colombian president “really has to be careful.”
“He’s making cocaine and they’re shipping it into the United States, so he has to tread carefully,” Trump said at the time, making clear his administration’s growing frustration with Colombia’s role in the drug trade.
The Colombian government immediately responded to Trump’s latest threat, with the Foreign Ministry issuing a strongly worded statement late Sunday rejecting Trump’s remarks, calling them completely unacceptable.
“This is an inappropriate interference in a country’s internal affairs and violates the norms of international law,” the foreign ministry said in its official response to Trump’s military threats.
Petro, who has been an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy in the region, condemned Saturday’s attack on Venezuela and positioned himself as a defender of Latin American sovereignty against what he sees as U.S. imperialism.
Colombia’s foreign ministry is expected to formally protest Trump’s threats through diplomatic channels and may seek support from other Latin American countries in denouncing what they see as unacceptable interference in their internal affairs.
