United States President Donald Trump has threatened his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, following Washington’s abduction of Venezuela’s leader, and said he believed the government in Cuba, too, was likely to fall soon.Trump’s warnings on board Air Force One came on Sunday, despite a growing outcry over the brazen abduction of Nicolas Maduro, with Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain condemning the US action as a “dangerous precedent for peace and regional security”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTrump told reporters that both Colombia and Venezuela were “very sick” and that the government in Bogota was run by “a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States”.“And he’s not going to be doing it very long. Let me tell you,” Trump said, referring to Petro.When asked if he meant a US operation against Colombia, Trump said, “Sounds good to me.”The remarks prompted a sharp rebuke from Petro, who told Trump to stop slandering him while also calling on Latin American countries to unite or risk being “treated as a servant and slave”.In several lengthy posts on X, Petro noted that “the US is the first country in the world to bomb a South American capital in all of human history” but said revenge was not the answer.Instead, Latin America must unite, Petro said, and become a region “with the capacity to understand, trade, and join together with the whole world”.“We do not look only to th …
