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Colombia has agreed to bargain Swedish warplanes successful a $4.3 cardinal woody with Saab, President Gustavo Petro said, arsenic his state is locked successful hostility with the United States.
The authorities had said backmost successful April that it would get combatant planes from Saab but did not accidental however galore oregon for however overmuch money.
Mr. Petro specified connected Friday (November 14, 2025) successful an lawsuit astatine a subject basal that Colombia volition bargain 17 Gripen combatant jets.
Colombia and overmuch of the remainder of Latin America are connected borderline owed to a U.S. subject run targeting alleged cause moving boats successful the Caribbean and eastbound Pacific.
Mr. Petro, Colombia's archetypal leftist President, has traded insults with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump and alleged that the eventual extremity of the US deployment is to prehend Venezuela's lipid wealthiness and destabilize Latin America.
Mr. Petro said the caller planes volition beryllium utilized to dissuade "aggression against Colombia, wherever it whitethorn travel from."
"In a satellite that is geopolitically messy," helium said, specified aggression "can travel from anywhere."
Mr. Petro is an outspoken professional of Mr. Trump, who has called him "an amerciable cause leader" due to the fact that of Colombia's precocious level of cocaine production.
Mr. Trump has besides withdrawn U.S. fiscal assistance from Colombia and taken it disconnected its database of countries seen arsenic allies successful warring cause trafficking.
U.S. and French firms had besides tried to merchantability warplanes to Colombia but successful the extremity Bogota went with Saab.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is adjacent to Petro, says the U.S. subject deployment successful the portion is aimed astatine ousting him.
