Plans to tame Colombian coca-growing regions with military intervention have had little success. Photo: EPA PHOTO

US President Donald Trump has called Colombian President Gustavo Petro an "illegal drug leader" and said the United States would cease "large scale payments and subsidies" to the South American nation.

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"The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc," he said in a Truth Social post.

Reuters could not immediately establish which payments Trump was referring to.

Colombia was once

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