President Donald Trump departs on Air Force One from Palm Beach International Airport. (Photo: AP)
US President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia’s government, telling reporters that such an operation “sounds good to me.”
“Colombia is very sick, too, 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,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro.
Asked directly whether the US would pursue a military operation against the country, Trump answered, “It sounds good to me.
“The comments came after the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in an audacious raid and whisked him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges.
The US and Colombia have had ongoing tensions for months amid the US military build-up in the Caribbean and Petro has been one of Trump’s harshest international critics.
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Last month Petro invited Trump to visit Colombia the world’s largest producer of cocaine – to see his government’s efforts to destroy drug-producing labs.
At the weekend Petro called the US action in Venezuela an “assault on the sovereignty” of Latin America that would lead to a humanitarian crisis.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s criticism of the US military campaign against Venezuela and its targeting of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific has sparked a heated response from President Trump. Trump warned Petro to “watch his a*s”, accusing him of enabling cocaine production and smuggling into the US.
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President Donald Trump departs on Air Force One from Palm Beach International Airport. (Photo: AP) 
