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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-19 23:15:21

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-19 18:48:41

'The victim of the strike was identified by Petro as Alejandro Carranza, a Colombian fisherman from the coastal town of Santa Marta. He was ... killed when US forces fired at his boat on 15 September.
“Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing,” Petro wrote. “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”

Trump calls Colombia president ‘illegal drug dealer’ as US says it hit another ship
Trump vows to cut US funding as Pete Hegseth says US hit Colombian rebel group vessel and ‘three terrorists killed’

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-22 01:24:45

the president of columbia is currently giving relationship advice on x dot com

Gustavo Petro, translated from Spanish: There are two things I've learned in life: not to go to bed with a woman from whom nothing is born in my heart, and not to buy sex when I'm still capable of seduction and poetry. You always have to combine sexuality with culture; that's what's called eroticism. I advise you of that. Now, if you manage to make your energy and that of the universe flow through every cell of your partner, you achieve, I believe, the maximum vital possibility of the human be…
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-19 22:56:59

Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo on X:
"U.S. government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.
Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to drug trafficking and his daily activity was fishing.
The Colombian boat was drifting and had a distress signal on because it had one engine up.
We await explanations from the US government."
x.com/petrogustavo/status/1979

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-27 12:12:19

Asking “…all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," is _not_ having “…urged U.S. soldiers to…incite violence,” in fact seems to be the opposite of a call for violence (it is a call to be peaceful).
Petro is the current President of Columbia.

screenshot from CNN world: "It (the global force) has to be bigger than that of the United States. That's why from here, from New York, I ask all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," Petro is heard saying in a video posted to social media. "Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity," he added. Afterwards, the US State Department said in a post on X: "Earlier today, Colombian president (Gustavo Petro) stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. sol…
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-02 16:06:11

Gustavo Petro of Colombia expels Israeli diplomatic mission following the detention of Colombian flotilla participants in Israel's act of Piracy.

Colombia | Petro anunció la expulsión de la delegación diplomática de Israel en el país tras la detención de connacionales que integraban la Flotilla Global Sumud rumbo a Gaza – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-09-30 00:09:15

Sooooo.... UN Open Source Week 2026? What do you suppose the odds are of it not happening in NYC?
mastodon.social/@progressivepa

progressiveparker (@progressiveparker@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Petro Calls for Moving UN HQ After Trump Admin Revokes His Visa Over Protest Speech “What the US government is doing to me breaks all the norms of immunity on which the functioning of the United Nations and its General Assembly is based,” Petro said. Olivia Rosane Sep 27, 2025 https://www.commondreams.org/news/gustavo-petro-un-trump

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-26 14:05:36

US places sanctions on Colombian president over alleged failure to stop cartels (Cy Neff/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o
memeorandum.com/251026/p17#a25

@barijaona@mastodon.mg
2025-11-05 02:09:05

As Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotš, said (and Gustavo Petro repeated):
“An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation.” sfba.social/@markmetz/11549363

Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King" (@markmetz@sfba.social)
@augieray@mastodon.social This illustrates what can happen when a community has good public transit. People who can easily drive, or be driven around, find it easier to get place to place using public transit. Almost like most every city in Europe!

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-25 20:05:42

Is the US killing innocent people? (Cameron Peters/Vox)
vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-
memeorandum.com/251025/p42#a25