Donald Trump and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro have engaged in a new round of verbal sparring, with the United States president calling his South American counterpart a “thug” who is “making a lot of drugs”, and the Colombian leader threatening legal action against Trump in US courts.Weeks of escalating tension between Washington and Bogota hit a new level on Wednesday when Trump told reporters at the White House he was suspending all military aid to Colombia due to its alleged role in the international narcotics trade and warned Petro to “watch it”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“He’s a thug and he’s a bad guy, and he’s hurt his country very badly,” Trump said.“They’re doing very poorly, Colombia. They make cocaine. They have cocaine factories … and he better watch it or we’ll take very serious action against him and his country,” the US president said.“What he has led his country into is a death trap,” Trump added.Responding to the US president’s threat, Petro took to social media to announce he would take legal action against Trump’s slanderous remarks.“From the slanders that have been cast against me in the territory of the United States by high-ranking officials, I will defend myself judicially with American lawyers in the American justice system,” Petro wrote on X.“I will always stand against genocides and murders by those in power in the Caribbean,” he said, adding that when Colombian “help is required to fight against drug trafficking, American …
