Trump called Colombia's president an "illegal drug leader" on Sunday and pledged to end U.S. aid to the South American country, following the leader's criticism of U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

Mr. Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro in a post on Truth Social of "encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields."

Hours earlier, Petro accused the U.S. in a series of X posts of hitting a fishing vessel in a strike it carried out last month, not a boat carrying drugs as it had claimed at the time. The Colombian leader said a fisherman had been killed in the attack, saying that in doing so the U.S. had "invaded national territory." He made a similar allegation earlier this month, claiming another boat that was struck by the U.S. military carried Colombian citizens — which the U.S. denied.

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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I’m curious what year he thinks it is, and whether he believes that Pablo Escobar is still alive

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I would love to see the press simply ask him what year it is...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    To be fair, Colombia is still the biggest coca producer in the world, by a huuuge margin.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do you have recent data? I could only find like up to 2023.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It seems that 2023 is the most recent year with open data

    However, I found this on cocaine field erradication: Cocaine field erradication is at a low point, going from 130.1 thousand ha to 9.4 k ha.

    Given that guerrillas and narcotrafic has only grown bigger in the last few years, I'm very confident the situation has only got worse since 2023, sadly.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Knowing how US operates, when someone is labeled a criminal/terrorist/bad, this means they don't want to comply with US (exploitative) demands.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Where does he think his cocaine comes from?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    *his son's cocaine. As much as I hate Trump, I think he stays fairly clean... McDonald's is his crutch.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He's a germaphobe. He likes his lab produced Adderall instead of cocaine from whenever.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Drugs won the war on drugs. The only ones who don't want to admit it are US politicians.

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  • It was never a war of on drugs, it was a war of subjugation. The war is going exactly how they wanted it too.

    People are afraid enough of drugs they can manipulate elections with them. The number of people who were convinced Fentanyl was being brought over the Mexican border by people trying to illegally immigrate and that those 2 issues were tied together was high.

    They made people scared, and manipulated them into allowing the government to get away with persecuting people while disregarding the inequality of it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    With the majority of drugs coming from China and often distributed through Mexico, trying to pin all this drug dealing on South America seems like a dumb move. I guess that is all they got because the real reason of regime change (aka toppling more countries) is not very palatable.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He knows his base is the same people he did cocaine with in the 80's. They all remember Columbia being involved with cocaine trafficking, and are too old and batshit crazy to realize that's no longer true

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mr. Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro in a post on Truth Social of "encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields."

    What about medium fields?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Those are mostly alright, very bribable, and will take our undesirables for labor or whatever-the-fuck. The big ones, they want to be the big kahuna. The little ones, you can't trust; they'll turn on ya for short money.

    ...this started as a joke of a shitpost and ended feeling a little too plausible to serve that purpose, so, uh, hmm

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I just stopped trying to find rhyme or reason to stuff like that.

    I think people's brains have been so fried by information, they just do these things without thinking out of instinct or habit. There is no sense to be had.

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    So in the middle of planning his invasion of Venezuela, he noticed Colombia is right next door?

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  • I lived in Columbia for several years. Their president is that corrupt, as well as so many others in high positions. Major drugs have been coming out of Columbia, for a long time. Thats kinda common knowledge though.

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  • I want to be a drug leader.

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