US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called Colombian President Gustavo Pedro "a leader of the illegal drug trade" and said the US would suspend "large payments and subsidies" to the South American country, Reuters reported.
"The purpose of this drug production is to sell massive quantities of the product in the United States, causing death, destruction and chaos," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The Colombian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Relations between Bogota and Washington have soured since Trump returned to power. Last month, the US revoked Petra's visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian protest in New York and called on US soldiers not to follow Trump's orders.
Last year, Petro promised to curb coca-growing areas in Colombia through a major social and military intervention, but that strategy has not yielded significant results.
In September, Trump listed countries such as Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia and Venezuela among those the US considers to have "clearly failed" to comply with counternarcotics agreements over the past year.
He blamed Colombia's political leadership for the failure to implement drug control obligations.
"Petro... is a leader in the illegal drug trade who strongly encourages the mass production of narcotics," Trump said, adding that US payments and subsidies to Colombia are a fraud.
"As of today, these payments, or any other form of payment or subsidy, will no longer be made," Trump wrote in large letters.
It was not clear exactly what Trump meant, according to Reuters.
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