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President Donald Trump said Colombia’s president could be targeted in the same way as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid a growing rift between the two leaders over the export of illegal drugs to the United States and its military presence in the region.

Trump was speaking with reporters in the Oval Office when he was asked about Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who has been a vocal critic of U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean.

Trump was asked whether he had spoken with Petro — whom he has called an “illegal drug dealer,” as he previously did with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

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