Colombia Recalls Ambassador to US as Trump-Petro Feud Intensifies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump on Sunday vowed to end all aid to the South American nation -- a historically close US partner and the world's leading cocaine producer -- berating his leftist counterpart Gustavo Petro as an "illegal drug leader."
50% : Petro and Trump have feuded since the US leader returned to power in January, but their public conflict has intensified in recent weeks over the Republican president's deadly anti-drug campaign in the Caribbean.
50% : Petro has accused Trump of murder and of violating Colombia's sovereignty.
50% : Trump, he said, "does not like free men because he wants to be king."
45% : The campaign has mainly focused on drug trafficking from Venezuela, though attention has turned toward Colombia in recent days.
42% : He also said he would announce new tariffs on Monday targeting Colombia, and threatened unspecified action to "close up" drug cultivation in the country if Petro failed to act.
41% : Half of this went to fighting drug trafficking.
36% : Since coming to power in 2022, leftist Petro has championed a paradigm shift in the US-led war on drugs, away from forced eradication to focus on the social problems that fuel drug trafficking.
11% : US President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro (AFP) Colombia on Monday recalled its ambassador to the United States as a public feud between the nations' leaders heated up with President Donald Trump revoking aid and threatening punishing tariffs, or more.

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