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La Paz, Oct 19 (EFE) - Former Bolivian President Evo Morales expressed his solidarity this Sunday with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in the face of the "attacks and threats" of the US ruler, Donald Trump, who called the Colombian a "drug trafficking leader" and announced that he would cut off financial aid to his country.
"We send all our solidarity to the brother president @petrogustavo in the face of attacks and threats from the President of the United States, Donald Trump," Morales (2006-2019) wrote on X.
For the also ex-leader of the governmental Movement for Socialism (MAS), Petro "is one of the worthy voices that seeks peace".
Morales also maintained that the "threats" against "sister Colombia are threats against the entire Great Homeland", as he usually calls the Latin American region.
The leftist former Bolivian president has political affinity with Petro and during his almost fourteen years in office, Bolivia distanced itself from the United States.
In a message on the Truth Social network, Trump referred to Petro this Sunday as "a drug trafficking leader who encourages the mass production of drugs, both in large and small fields" in Colombia and announced that he will cut financial aid to that country for its alleged inaction in the fight against drug trafficking.
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Furthermore, he threatened that if the Colombian president did not shut down "these extermination camps immediately", the United States "will shut them down". Petro replied that Trump "is mistaken" and defended that what he has done throughout his career is precisely to denounce the drug mafias. For its part, the Colombian Chancellery rejected Trump's "direct threat against national sovereignty" and announced that it will go to "all international instances" to defend it. Trump's statements come a month after the United States removed Colombia from the list of countries fighting against drugs, along with four other nations, for having "manifestly failed" in the last year its obligations under international anti-drug agreements. They also arrive in the midst of the "armed conflict" that the United States declared against drug trafficking and which so far has resulted in the bombing of at least seven alleged drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean Sea, near the coast of Venezuela. Petro, who has hardened his criticism of the White House tenant since, last August, he ordered that military deployment in the Caribbean, also accused Trump of being "rude and ignorant with Colombia" and invited him to read 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', by Gabriel García Márquez, to "learn something about society".
