US President Donald Trump said on Sunday night he would raise tariffs on Colombia and stop all payments to the South American nation. Calling Colombia's President Gustavo Petro a lunatic, Trump said that the country has become a drug manufacturing machine, and he is doing nothing to stop the production. While talking to reporters, Trump said, "They are a drug manufacturing machine, Colombia, and we're not going to be part of it. So we're going to drop all money that we're giving to them. They have, it has nothing to do with them stopping drug production." "And you look at the fields. The fields are loaded up with drugs, and they refine the drugs and they make tremendous amounts of cocaine, and they send it all over the world and they destroy families. No, Colombia is out of co
US to hike tariff on Colombia, calls Petro a ‘lunatic’ — will Trump’s aid freeze push relations to the brink?

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