Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounced President Donald Trump as a “barbarian,” escalating a feud between the two leaders over the United States’s approach to targeting drugs flowing from South America.

Earlier this week, Petro ordered his country to stop sharing intelligence with Washington due to his outrage at Trump for authorizing around 20 military strikes on boats off the coast of the continent suspected to be carrying drug cartel members and illegal narcotics to the U.S. The Pentagon’s most recent strike was on Wednesday and killed four people.

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