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And for our friends South O’ The Border<\/p>\n

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Colombia’s Petro Picks a Fight With Trump. Spoiler Alert: FAFO<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2022, Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla group and all-around nutcase, became Colombia’s first left-wing leader since the founding of the country. In three years, his popularity ratings have tanked, he’s been involved in scandal after scandal, and his reckless economic policies have stalled the country’s growth. Heck, in just the last three or so weeks, he’s had his United States visa revoked, become an arm chair “No Kings” rally expert, and accused our country of killing poor little fishermen in the Caribbean Sea \u2014 fishermen who just happened to have illegal drugs on board their fancy narco-boats.<\/p>\n

Well, Donald Trump has had enough. Petro has officially reached the FO version of FAFO.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, Trump made the following\u00a0announcement on Truth Social<\/a>\u00a0(emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

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. 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.\u00a0AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA<\/strong>. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won\u2019t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shortly after that, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted on X that the U.S. on Friday blew up a narco-vessel, which actually belonged to\u00a0Ej\u00e9rcito de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional<\/em>\u00a0(ELN), or Colombia’s National Liberation Army \u2014 a group the U.S. designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization\u00a0back in 1997<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 along with video of the strike.<\/p>\n

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On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ej\u00e9rcito de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. <\/span><\/div>\n
The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics. <\/span><\/div>\n
There were three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike\u2014which was conducted in international waters.<\/span><\/div>\n
All three terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike. <\/span><\/div>\n
These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people. The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are\u2014they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n