President Trump is threatening heavy sanctions against Colombia amid his feud with its unpopular left-wing president, Gustavo Petro — and Colombians both there and here in South Florida will likely feel caught in the middle.

Petro accuses Trump of murdering Colombians and other Latin Americans on suspected drug-trafficking boats the U.S. military has recently destroyed in the Caribbean.

As a result, Trump is calling Petro himself a "drug dealer" because of his failure to rein in Colombia's violent narco-cartels — and he says he’ll cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Colombia while imposing new tariffs on the country.

But political analysts like Colombian-American Marco Frieri warn that although a sizeable swath of Colombians "approve of Trump telling Petro to back down on all

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