President of Colombia Gustavo Petro Urrego addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, New York, on Sept. 23, 2025 Pamela Smith/AP
U.S. President Donald Trump labeled Colombia’s president an “illegal drug leader” on Oct. 19 and said he’d be cutting off U.S. subsidies to the South American nation.
“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia,” Trump wrote on social media. “It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large-scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America.”
