Trump administration revokes Petro’s visa over alleged incendiary actions

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The Trump administration introduced late Friday it's revoking the U.S. visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro over alleged "reckless and incendiary actions" in New York Metropolis.

"Earlier in the present day, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC road and urged U.S. troopers to disobey orders and incite violence," learn a submit on the U.S. State Department's X account. "We are going to revoke Petro’s visa because of his reckless and incendiary actions."

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Colombian embassy however didn't hear again earlier than publication.

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The visa revocation comes on the heels of the annual assembly of the U.N. Basic Meeting in New York Metropolis this week.

Movies circulating on-line present the Colombian president addressing a crowd gathered at an illustration towards Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in New York Metropolis Friday to handle the meeting.

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In a fiery speech earlier this week, Petro referred to as for a legal investigation towards President Donald Trump and different administration officers over lethal strikes on boats within the Caribbean that the White Home mentioned had been carrying medication.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks on the Worldwide Staff' Day march in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Might 1, 2024. (AP Photograph/Fernando Vergara)

Petro repudiated the assaults, calling them an "act of tyranny," whereas additionally accusing Trump of criminalizing poverty and migration.

"Prison proceedings should be opened towards these officers, who're from the U.S., even when it contains the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump," Petro mentioned of the strikes, including that boat passengers weren't members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang because the Trump administration claimed after the primary assault.

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If the boats had been carrying medication as alleged by the U.S. authorities, Petro mentioned, their passengers "weren't drug traffickers; they had been merely poor younger folks from Latin America who had no different possibility."

This picture reveals President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. (Getty)

Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla and Colombia’s first leftist chief, has had a rocky relationship with Trump for the reason that inauguration.

In January, Trump threatened to impose 50% tariffs on all imports from the Latin American nation if it didn't settle for navy planes stuffed with deported Colombians as a part of Trump’s deportation sweep. Petro threatened to retaliate with counter tariffs however later relented and agreed to raise his ban on the flights.

In April, Petro claimed that the Trump administration had revoked his travel visa to the U.S. Throughout a cupboard assembly that month, Petro mentioned he couldn't attend conferences with worldwide organizations in Washington, D.C., as a result of "they took away my visa."