BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president Gustavo Petro has publicly released his bank records in an effort to demonstrate he has no ties to drug trafficking, an unsubstantiated claim made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Colombia’s Financial Information and Analysis Unit this week began releasing the president’s bank statements to the press from 2022 to June of this year after the president ordered their release on Monday.

“Don’t you find it alarming that my bank accounts and transactions contradict President (Donald) Trump’s assessment of a president democratically elected by Colombians?” Petro wrote Wednesday on the social network X.

Petro is referring to the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department on him, first lady Verónica Alcocer, and his eldest son Nicolás Petro, all

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