Overview

• State Department officials announced the decision on X, calling Petro’s actions “reckless” and “inflammatory.”
• At a pro‑Palestine demonstration outside the UN, Petro urged U.S. soldiers to “disobey Trump’s orders” and “obey the commands of humanity.”
• The department did not initially provide detailed evidence to substantiate the accusation when publicizing the revocation.
• Petro posted that he had returned to Bogotá and said the loss of a U.S. visa did not matter to him, noting he also holds an EU passport.
• The move follows a broader rift after the U.S. dropped Colombia as a counter‑narcotics partner and after Petro’s UN speech accusing Trump of complicity in genocide in Gaza and urging probes of U.S. strikes on suspected smuggling boats.