Colombian President Gustavo Petro called Donald Trump "very misinformed" after the U.S. President threatened him in Washington's war on drug cartels.

Trump on Wednesday told reporters that Colombia is "producing a lot of drugs " and that Petro had "better wise up or he'll be next". Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is already under heavy military and diplomatic pressure from the Trump administration to quit and flee, with the White House accusing him of heading a drug cartel, which he denies.

"Trump is a very misinformed man when it comes to Colombia. It’s a shame, because he dismisses the country that knows the most about cocaine trafficking," Petro said in a statement posted to X, originally in Spanish. "It seems his interlocutors deceive him completely."

He added: "This terri

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