Overview

• In a Truth Social post, Trump announced the immediate suspension of all U.S. payments, subsidies and aid to Colombia, without specifying which programs are being halted.
• He warned that if Bogotá does not close drug-production “fields of death,” the United States will do so itself and that it “will not be nice.”
• President Gustavo Petro rejected the claims, said Trump is being misled by advisers, and argued he has long exposed ties between narcotrafficking and Colombian politics.
• Petro demanded explanations over the death of fisherman Alejandro Carranza in what he says was a U.S. strike in Colombian waters, as reports describe multiple recent U.S. attacks on suspected smuggling vessels in the Caribbean.
• The freeze jeopardizes hundreds of millions of dollars in counter-narcotics, development and security cooperation, following last month’s U.S. decertification of Colombia and the revocation of Petro’s U.S. visa.