This Friday, United States announced sanctions against the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and against the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, accused of not stopping illicit drug trafficking.
“President Petro has allowed drug cartels to thrive and has refused to stop this activity,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
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“President (Donald) Trump is taking strong action to protect our nation and make it clear that we will not tolerate drug trafficking into our country.”he added.
The ones, published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), They involve the blocking of any property that Petro Measures, as well as his wife and one of his children, have in the United States, and also prevents them from carrying out international transactions with means of payment located in the United States.
These sanctions occur despite “fighting against drug trafficking for decades,” Gustavo Petro reacted.
“Fighting against drug trafficking for decades and effectively brings me this measure from the government of society that we help so much to stop their cocaine consumption,” Petro wrote on the X network. “Not one step back and never on our knees,” he added.
“Gringos go home,” Benedetti responded in X.