Colombian President Gustavo Petro threatened to “take out” President Donald Trump in an lengthy interview with Univision on Monday a day after Trump known as Petro “an unlawful drug chief.”
Relations between Colombia and the US are at a nadir after the U.S. destroyed a suspected drug operating boat within the Caribbean final month, killing a Colombian nationwide. Petro stated the person was a fisherman. A report by El Pais says the person had a prison document involving the theft of lots of of weapons from a police station in 2015.
Colombia recalled its ambassador to the U.S. on Monday for consultations.
Final month, the State Division revoked Petro’s visa throughout the U.N. Normal Meeting after he spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York Metropolis and known as on U.S. troops to disobey orders by Trump.
Talking with Univision President Daniel Coronell on the finish of the interview at Casa de Nariño in Bogota, Petro stated if Trump gained’t change, the answer is to “take out Trump,” loudly snapping his fingers.
Petro: “Humanity has a primary offramp, and it’s to alter Trump in numerous methods. The best manner could also be via Trump himself–the best. If not, take out Trump.”
PRIMERA SALIDA Y ES CAMBIAR A TRUMP DE DIVERSAS MANERAS. PUEDE SER POR EL MISMO TRUMP, LA MáS FáCIL, SI NO SACA LA TRUMP.” (Word: Each X and Google translate the remark as “take out Trump.” The MRC translation is “eliminate Trump.”
Coronell, was shaken by the interview, posting afterward (by way of translation), “I’m leaving extra anxious than after I arrived.”
Me voy más preocupado de lo que llegué
— Daniel Coronell (@DCoronell) October 21, 2025
Video by way of the Media Analysis Middle’s Jorge Bonilla:
JUST IN: Colombia’s President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if @realDonaldTrump will not change, the answer is to “eliminate Trump” pic.twitter.com/JzRYHGPIzX
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 21, 2025
On Sunday, Trump posted about Petro:
President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an unlawful drug chief strongly encouraging the huge manufacturing of medication, in huge and small fields, throughout Colombia. It has develop into the most important enterprise in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to cease it, regardless of massive scale funds and subsidies from the USA which can be nothing greater than a long run rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The aim of this drug manufacturing is the sale of huge quantities of product into the US, inflicting loss of life, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and really unpopular chief, with a recent mouth towards America, higher shut up these killing fields instantly, or the US will shut them up for him, and it gained’t be achieved properly. Thanks in your consideration to this matter! President Donald J. Trump
Excerpt from the Guardian on the battle between Petro and Trump:
Colombia has recalled its ambassador to Washington amid a livid disagreement between the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, and Donald Trump over lethal US strikes on boats within the Caribbean.
The row took a pointy flip this weekend when Petro accused the US of “murdering” a Colombian fisher in an assault on a vessel in its territorial waters. Petro and his administration stated the mid-September strike was a “direct menace to nationwide sovereignty” and that the sufferer was a “lifelong fisherman” and a “humble human being”.
In response, Trump, who has claimed such assaults are designed to cease drug-smuggling to the US, known as Petro an “unlawful drug supplier” and vowed to finish help funds to Colombia, one of many largest recipients of US counter-narcotics help. He additionally ordered Petro to “shut up” drug cultivation websites, saying if not “the US will shut them up for him, and it gained’t be achieved properly”. Talking onboard Air Drive One, Trump added that he would announce new tariffs on Colombian items.
…Relations soured at first of Trump’s second time period. Days after Trump’s inauguration Colombia initially refused to simply accept navy flights carrying deportees, prompting the US president to threaten tariffs and sanctions. Months later, Washington revoked Petro’s visa after he urged US troopers to disobey Trump at a pro-Palestine rally in New York, telling them “disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity.”
In September, the US then declared that Colombia was “failing” to fulfill its worldwide drug management obligations, decertifying it for the primary time in practically 30 years.
Excerpt from report by El Pais published Sunday (by way of translation):
Following the newest navy motion by the US in Caribbean waters, a ship that, in keeping with the Donald Trump administration, was destroyed on September sixteenth. It was believed to be transporting medicine to the US.
Within the assault, a Colombian man recognized by President Gustavo Petro as a “fisherman, not a drug trafficker” was reportedly killed.
Nonetheless, the media outlet El Tiempo realized that Alejandro Andrés Carranza, higher referred to as “Coroncoro,” was allegedly concerned within the theft of 264 weapons from the Santa Marta Metropolitan Police.
The incident reportedly occurred nearly a decade in the past, between March and September 2015 , when the Prosecutor’s Workplace uncovered what gave the impression to be an unlawful operation throughout the police power itself. The scandal was monumental as a result of massive variety of firearms seized from unlawful teams that disappeared from the Sijín’s proof warehouse.
…Led by the nineteenth Sectional Prosecutor’s Workplace of Magdalena, along with the CTI (Prison Investigation Unit), seven individuals have been arrested: Main Rolando Pinzón García, who was serving as head of the Sijín (Nationwide Investigation Unit) on the time; 5 uniformed officers of assorted ranks; and one civilian: Alejandro Andrés Carranza Medina, alias “Coroncoro.”
‘Croncoro’ was the one civilian who pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit a criminal offense, embezzlement by appropriation, falsification of a public doc, and aggravated theft, in reference to the weapons incident.
Years later, his identify could be talked about once more, this time when President Gustavo Petro himself defended him after the US assault on the boat he was touring on…
