(today)
Colombia will continue to work with the United States to fight drug trafficking using Washingtonâs intelligence and technology, it said yesterday.
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âThe fight against drug trafficking must continue to be waged jointly with technology, with all the advances in cooperation that the US government can give us. We will continue to emphasise the fight against this scourge, particularly on the Colombian-Venezuelan border,â Idarraga said.
(November 13, 2025)
Officials in Colombia say the country will continue to share intelligence with international agencies combatting drug trafficking, just days after President Gustavo Petro said he was suspending such collaboration with the United States over attacks on vessels in international waters.
Colombian Defence Minister Pedro Arnulfo Sanchez said in a social media post on Thursday that Petro had provided âclear instructionsâ to maintain a âcontinuous flow of informationâ with international agencies working on drug trafficking.
Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, made the remarks in a post on X, writing: âI swore not to touch a weapon again⊠but for the homeland I will take up arms again.â
The comments followed Trumpâs warning that Petro should âwatch his a**â, while describing Colombiaâs first left-wing president as âa sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United Statesâ.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, January 6 at 10:00 EST (15:00 GMT) in the SimĂłn Bolivar room at OAS headquarters, âto consider recent events in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.â
Please consult the agenda of the meeting here. Note that changes to the agenda may yet be made before the meeting.
The meeting will be broadcast live – with interpretation in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese- on the OAS Website and the OAS Facebook page
(January 3, 2026)
Colombia, backed by Russia and China, requested the meeting of the 15-member council, diplomats said. The U.N. Security Council has met twice – in October and December – over the escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela.
(January 3, 2026)
Colombiaâs President Gustavo Petro called for emergency meets of the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS) after the United States apparently carried out air strikes in Venezuela.
In a series of posts on social media platform X, Petro said âthey have attacked Venezuela.â
(December 2, 2025)
Calls for international protection are not new, Aboudi told The Electronic Intifada.
In April 2025, âwe called for international protection and we called for international forces to come, forcefully impose a ceasefire and guarantee the opening of all crossings to Gaza for the flow of humanitarian aid and personnel to save the population of Gaza,â Aboudi said.
Following a PNGO statement in August, specifically calling on the UNGA to adopt the Uniting for Peace resolution, Colombia wanted to push the idea forward.
âWe already had a draft proposal by the Colombian government,â VĂctor de Currea-Lugo, Middle East advisor to Colombiaâs President Petro, told The Electronic Intifada. That proposal was âready to be presentedâ in the General Assembly.
âWe organized a strategy to visit different countries and to mobilize our embassies, our consulates and our mission before the United Nations [meet] in New York. The problem was, at that moment, Trump presented his plan for the pacification of Gaza,â de Currea-Lugo said.
Adding to the obstacles, according to Aboudi, âthe Palestinian Authority werenât really pushing for it.â
âThey still were betting on US intervention and involvement: that it would end the genocide, that it would give them the path for a Palestinian state and for the recognition of Palestinian rights. This gamble did not pay off,â he said.
(December 2, 2025)
According to Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Washington acted out of âunhappinessâ over the possibility of Uniting for Peace, adding that heavy pressure was exerted on member states.
He described the arrangement as âperverse,â noting that âthe perpetrator of genocide and its principal supporter are rewarded by presiding over a supposed peace process.â
President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombiaâs intelligence agencies to stop sharing information on drug trafficking with their United States counterparts until US President Donald Trump stops ordering strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
Petro announced the order on Twitter after US television network CNN reported that the United Kingdom suspended intelligence sharing over the strikes that have killed at least 67 people since early September.
A strike on Colombia would mark a serious shift in Washingtonâs historic alliance with the country but Trump has not ruled it out as his spat with Colombian President Gustavo Petro escalates. On Friday, the White House added Petro and members of his inner circle to the so-called Clinton List, imposing harsh financial sanctions for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
Trump has offered no evidence for his claims that Petro is âan illegal drug dealerâ, but takes issue with the proliferation of coca cultivation and cocaine production under the current administration. The Colombian president has also been a vocal critic of Trump, accusing him of âmurderâ in his campaign against boats in the Caribbean.
(October 27, 2025)
President Gustavo Petro warned the United States not to attack Colombia in response to a threat by the conservative US Senator Lindsay Graham.
In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that âthe Colombian people, every time they are attacked anywhere, en masse head to the mountains and arm themselvesâ to become âinvisible like the jaguar with passionate stealth.â
âDonât try it, thatâs the only advise I give,â said the president, âbecause I know the history of my people and I am⊠the legitimate son of my people.â
(October 19, 2025)
President Gustavo Petro said a U.S. strike in the Caribbean had killed a fisherman. President Trump said he would cut aid and impose new tariffs on Colombian imports.
(October 19, 2025)
Colombia‘s president, Gustavo Petro, has accused Washington of „murder“ after the U.S. military struck an alleged drug-trafficking vessel last month.
Petro said the White House had violated the South American country‘s sovereignty and killed a Colombian fisherman, named by the president as Alejandro Carranza. Colombian media reported Carranza was onboard a boat targeted by U.S. forces on September 15.
(October 16, 2025)
Petro also reiterated his demand that the United States reveal the identities of the 27 people killed so far in missile strikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean, amid concerns that Colombian nationals may be among the victims.
Although Washington urged Petro to retract his statements, CNN reported â citing Pentagon sources â that at least one of the attacks had targeted Colombian citizens.
Earlier, Petro had said his government believed Colombians were among those killed in the bombings.
In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was already wanted by the International Criminal Court, committed âanother international crimeâ by ordering the kidnapping of Colombian citizens in international waters.
The Colombian activists, Luna Barreto and Manuela Bedoya, were among a group of 497 anti-genocide activists that tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza via the Mediterranean Sea.
(September 30, 2025)
„We had the most powerful international trade agreement with the Andean Pact. And now the political satraps come out and say that it is with the United States. When was that the case? Our industrial goods were sold to Venezuela and Ecuador. There was always food trade in the Andean Pact. Why did we abandon the Andean Pact? To prioritize a free trade agreement with the United States that hurts us.“
President Gustavo Petro
(08.01.2024)
Boliviaâs Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that it is joining the case filed by South Africa before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for committing genocide crimes in the Gaza Strip.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has condemned Israelâs bombardments of Gaza, calling its war in the besieged Palestinian enclave that has so far killed more than 9,000 people âgenocideâ.
Petroâs remarks came in a post on X on Wednesday, accompanied by a picture of victims of the Israeli air attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza that killed at least 195 people. At least 120 people are also missing, according to Gazaâs officials.
New York. Die links-gerichteten PrĂ€sident:innen aus Lateinamerika haben bei der 78. Vollversammlung der Vereinten Nationen grundlegende VerĂ€nderungen der globalen wirtschaftlichen und politischen Ordnung gefordert. Sie ĂŒbten scharfe Kritik am internationalen Finanzsystem und am Krieg in der Ukraine, die in ihren Augen den Kampf gegen Armut, Ungleichheit und Klimawandel verhindern.
Petro bedauerte, dass sich die Wirtschaft heute auf den Export von Erdöl, Kohle und Kokain stĂŒtze und nicht mehr wie frĂŒher auf Kaffee. WĂ€hrend der Kaffeeexport im letzten Jahrhundert rund eine Million ArbeitsplĂ€tze geschaffen habe, seien es heute in der Erdölproduktion nur 150.000.
FĂŒr mehr Wohlstand im Land sei es daher wichtig, die Landwirtschaft anzukurbeln, indem die KleinbĂ€uer:innen Lebensmittel produzieren, die das Land heute importiert. Als Beispiel nannte er Mais. Obwohl dieses Getreide ursprĂŒnglich aus Kolumbien stamme, werde es heute vor allem aus den USA und Kanada importiert.
(22.11.2022)
Der linke kolumbianische PrĂ€sident Gustavo Petro hat sich mit Sprechern des Wikileaks-Projekts im PrĂ€sidentenpalast Casa de Nariño getroffen. Das Treffen mit dem Chefredakteur der EnthĂŒllungsplattform, Kristinn Hrafnsson, und dem Wikileaks-Botschafter, Joseph Farrell, dauerte etwa eine Stunde. Laut Hrafnsson hat sich der Staatschef bereit erklĂ€rt, fĂŒr den GrĂŒnder von Wikileaks, Julian Assange, bei der Regierung von Joe Biden einzutreten.
Auch Blinken, mit dem Petro ein 20-minĂŒtiges Telefonat fĂŒhrte, Ă€uĂerte sich via Twitter positiv zu den GesprĂ€chen.
Unter kolumbianischen Politiker:innen und Expert:innen sorgte das schnell stattgefundene GesprĂ€ch zwischen Petro und Biden fĂŒr Ăberraschung.
In Kolumbien haben im ganzen Land vom Nachmittag des Wahlsonntags bis Montagabend zahllose spontane UmzĂŒge auf den StraĂen stattgefunden, tausende Menschen jubelten stundenlang vor den Wahlkampfzentralen und tanzten die ganze Nacht hindurch. Menschen fielen sich in die Arme, gratulierten sich, ganze Familien feierten den Wahlsieg gemeinsam.
Hunderttausende Menschen haben sich am Donnerstag in Kolumbien an einem landesweiten Generalstreik beteiligt, zu dem die GewerkschaftsverbÀnde CUT, CGT und CTC aufgerufen hatte und dem sich eine Reihe politischer und sozialer Organisationen anschloss.