Milan, 27 September (LaPresse) – The US State Department has announced that it will revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa. The decision is based on the left-wing leader's “inflammatory actions” during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York, the State Department added. Earlier this week, Petro compared the Trump administration's air strikes against alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean Sea to an ‘act of tyranny’ in an interview with the BBC. This morning, Colombian President Petro appeared on a New York street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence," the State Department said in a post on X. On Friday, Petro shared a video on his social media account in which he spoke in Spanish to a large crowd through a megaphone, urging the ‘nations of the world’ to send soldiers for an army ‘bigger than that of the United States.’ ‘That is why, from here in New York, I ask all soldiers in the US Army not to point their guns at humanity,’ he said. ‘Disobey Trump's order! Obey humanity's order!’ Petro added.
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