President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States is halting financial aid to Colombia, a longstanding U.S. ally, as he accused its president of condoning the production of drugs.

Trump said leftist President Gustavo Petro is doing nothing to stop cocaine production despite “large scale payments and subsidies from the USA.”

“AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE” to Colombia, Trump said on his Truth Social platform, adding that Petro is “strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs.”

In the post Trump repeatedly misspelled the name of the country as Columbia.

Last month, Washington announced it had decertified Colombia as an ally in the fight against drugs.

After decades of close alliance in the so-called war on drug

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