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00:00Colombian President Issues Statement Via Social Media Responding to Trump Administration
00:05Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday that he is willing to
00:09take up arms in response to what he called threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.
00:14The statement came just days after a U.S. military operation in Venezuela
00:18led to the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, a close ally of Petro.
00:23Petro made the comments in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
00:26He said,
00:27I swore not to touch a weapon again, but for the homeland, I will take up arms again.
00:33Petro, Colombia's first left-wing president, is a former member of the M-19 guerrilla group,
00:39which disarmed in 1989 as part of a peace deal with the government.
00:43Tensions between Colombia and the U.S. have escalated since President Trump returned to
00:47office in January. The situation worsened after U.S. military operations in the Caribbean
00:53expanded from strikes on alleged drug boats to seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers.
00:58On Saturday, U.S. forces conducted a high-profile raid in Caracas, capturing and extraditing Nicolas
01:04Maduro and his wife. U.S. officials accused Maduro of corruption, human rights abuses, and
01:10ties to drug trafficking networks.
01:13After the raid, Trump warned President Gustavo Petro to watch his A and accused him of drug
01:18trafficking without offering evidence. His administration removed Colombia from certified
01:22drug war partners and imposed financial sanctions on Petro's family. Petro responded on X, defending
01:29his record and warning that aggressive military actions risk civilian deaths and could push
01:33more people toward guerrilla groups.
01:35If you bomb even one of these groups without sufficient intelligence, you will kill many
01:41children, he wrote. If you bomb peasants, thousands will turn into guerrillas in the mountains.
01:46And if you detain the president, whom a good part of my people love and respect, you will
01:51unleash the popular Jaguar.
01:54Petro cautioned that U.S. backing is increasingly tilting toward Colombia's right-wing opposition
01:58ahead of elections, reflecting the Trump administration's preference for conservative leaders across Latin
02:04America. Tensions with Washington are expected to persist amid the unfolding Venezuela situation
02:09and upcoming Colombian polls.
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