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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Petro and Trump also disagree over U.S. strikes on ships in the Caribbean.
62% : Further cuts could affect military cooperation and undermine efforts to fight rebel groups.
55% : " Colombia lost significant U.S. funding when Trump gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this year.
50% : In a social media post, Trump called Petro an "illegal drug leader" who is "low-rated and very unpopular."
50% : Later in the day, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Colombia had "no drug war" and "it's a drug-making machine" with "a lunatic" for president.
50% : He suggested Trump had been misled by his advisers, described himself as "the main enemy" of drugs in his country and said Trump was "rude and ignorant towards Colombia.
50% : Trump also authorized covert operations in Venezuela.
50% : Petro, Colombia's first left-wing president, has clashed repeatedly with Trump this year.
50% : Petro initially rejected U.S. military flights of deported migrants, leading Trump to threaten tariffs.
50% : Trump said Sunday that Petro had "a new mouth toward America."
48% : The United States will cut aid to Colombia and impose tariffs on its exports because the country's leader, Gustavo Petro, is "doing nothing to stop" drug production, President Donald Trump said Sunday, intensifying friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America.
40% : Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez told reporters that the country "used all its capabilities and also lost men and women in the fight against drug trafficking.
39% : The Republican president warned that Petro "had better put an end to anti-drug operations", "otherwise the United States will close them for him, and that will not be done well".
39% : There have been seven U.S. strikes in the region since early September that the administration says target suspected drug traffickers.
38% : The ELN, which Hegseth said was the target of Friday's strike, has long denied any role in drug trafficking and has offered to submit itself to scrutiny by an international commission.
37% : Petro said Carranza was a fisherman with no ties to drug trafficking and his boat was malfunctioning when it was struck.
37% : He lamented that drug trafficking continues "despite large-scale payments and subsidies from the United States that are nothing but a long-term scam for America.
12% : In September, the Trump administration accused Colombia of not cooperating in the war on drugs, although at the time Washington lifted sanctions that would have triggered a reduction in aid.

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