Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro pledged his support for Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Sunday after the United States doubled its bounty on Maduro to $50 million.

Petro ordered the Colombian Armed Forces to treat Colombians and Venezuelans as “the same people” against a purported “U.S. military intervention” in the neighboring country. Petro has not presented any evidence that the U.S. has any military intervention plans in Venezuela at press time.

“I publicly convey my order, as commander of the Colombian Armed Forces. Colombia and Venezuela are the same people, the same flag, the same history,” Petro wrote on his official Twitter account on Sunday.

“Any military operation that does not have the approval of our sister countries is an act of aggressio

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