“I will again resort to arms,” said on Monday a former guerrilla fighter and now Colombian President Gustavo Petro in response to threats from his United States (U.S.) counterpart Donald Trump, amid growing tensions between the two countries following the U.S. aggression in Venezuela and the kidnapping of that country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.
Donald Trump said on Sunday aboard the presidential aircraft Air Force One that an operation in Colombia, similar to the one carried out in Venezuela, “seems like a good idea” to him, and accused Gustavo Petro of drug trafficking in the U.S., warning him that “he will not be doing that for much longer.”
Petro soon responded, reacting to the threats from the U.S. leader.
“I swore that I would never again touch a weapon after the 1989 peace agreement, but I will resort to it again for the homeland,” the left-leaning Colombian president wrote on the platform X.
