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US Rebukes Gustavo Petro, Calls Colombian Leader ‘Illegal Drug Dealer’

The U.S. deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in response to drug trafficking, with 22 vessels struck and at least 83 deaths since September, officials said.

  • Recently, the White House rebuked President Gustavo Petro as an illegal drug leader while defending recent U.S. counterdrug actions, a White House official told Military.com.
  • President Gustavo Petro called U.S. strikes 'despotic' Sunday and proposed multinational talks including the U.S., China, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Australia to address trafficking.
  • U.S. forces struck 22 vessels since September, causing at least 83 deaths, while the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group deployed to the Caribbean under SOUTHCOM.
  • The White House said cartels are thriving under President Gustavo Petro's failed counterdrug policies despite billions in U.S. taxpayer investments, and questions remain about warfare expansions not approved by U.S. Congress.
  • Those warnings contrast with President Gustavo Petro warning that 'the impositions here only serve the mafias', while Emil Bove urged 'just sink the boats' at an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces conference amid maritime strikes.
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Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, released his bank accounts this week in an attempt to prove, he said, that he has no links to drug trafficking, an accusation launched, without proof, by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. “Given the rudeness of President Trump to integrate me and my family into the Clinton list without anyone being narco or having relations with narcos, I have decided that my entire financial life, long but fr…

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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Fernando Ramos, CNN en Español. Colombian President Gustavo Petro made his bank accounts public this week in an attempt to demonstrate, he said, that he has no ties to drug trafficking, an accusation leveled without evidence by U.S. President Donald Trump. “Given President Trump’s rudeness in adding me and my family to the Clinton List, even though none of us are drug traffickers or have any connections to drug trafficker…

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Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, released his bank accounts this week in an attempt to prove, he said, that he has no links to drug trafficking, an accusation launched, without proof, by the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Fernando Ramos, CNN en Español. Colombian President Gustavo Petro made his bank accounts public this week in an attempt to demonstrate, he said, that he has no ties to drug trafficking, an accusation leveled without evidence by U.S. President Donald Trump. “Given President Trump’s rudeness in adding me and my family to the Clinton List, even though none of us are drug traffickers or have any connections to drug trafficker…

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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Fernando Ramos, CNN en Español. Colombian President Gustavo Petro made his bank accounts public this week in an attempt to demonstrate, he said, that he has no ties to drug trafficking, an accusation leveled without evidence by U.S. President Donald Trump. “Given President Trump’s rudeness in adding me and my family to the Clinton List, even though none of us are drug traffickers or have any connections to drug trafficker…

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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Fernando Ramos, CNN en Español. Colombian President Gustavo Petro made his bank accounts public this week in an attempt to demonstrate, he said, that he has no ties to drug trafficking, an accusation leveled without evidence by U.S. President Donald Trump. “Given President Trump’s rudeness in adding me and my family to the Clinton List, even though none of us are drug traffickers or have any connections to drug trafficker…

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