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Colombian President Gustavo Petro said connected Monday (January 5, 2026) helium would "take up arms" successful the look of threats from U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, who implicit the play seized the person of neighboring Venezuela successful a subject strike.
Mr. Petro, a erstwhile guerrilla who has for months been the people of insults and threats from Mr. Trump, said connected X: "I swore not to interaction a limb again... but for the homeland I volition instrumentality up arms again."
Mr. Trump said implicit the play that Mr. Petro should "watch his ass" and described Colombia's first-ever leftist person arsenic "a sick antheral who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States."
Mr. Petro has harshly criticized the Trump administration’s subject enactment successful the portion and accused Washington of abducting Mr. Maduro “without ineligible basis.”
