A source from the President\u2019s office confirmed to AFP that Petro was travelling to Bogota later on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Petro has said he has Italian citizenship and would not need a visa to enter the United States.<\/p>\n
Petro was in New York for the UN General Assembly, where he rebuked the Trump administration fiercely and called for a criminal inquiry into recent US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean in his Tuesday address.<\/p>\n
Petro said unarmed \u201cpoor young people\u201d died in the strikes \u2013 more than a dozen in total \u2013 but Washington contends the actions are part of a US anti-drug operation off the coast of Venezuela, whose President is accused by Washington of running a cartel.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has dispatched eight warships and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, and the biggest US deployment in years has raised fears in Venezuela of an invasion.<\/p>\n
Petro, whose country is the world\u2019s biggest cocaine producer, has said he suspects some of those killed in the US boat strikes were Colombian.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Trump administration decertified Colombia as an ally in the fight against drugs but stopped short of economic sanctions.<\/p>\n
The countries are historical allies, but ties have soured under Petro, Colombia\u2019s first leftist leader.<\/p>\n
The South American country\u2019s Interior Minister Armando Benedetti wrote on X on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s visa should have been revoked rather than Petro\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut since the empire protects him, it\u2019s taking it out on the only president who was capable enough to tell him the truth to his face.\u201d<\/p>\n
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