Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“President Donald Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fishermen. Trump has boasted of the killings by the U.S. military but claims all the targets were drug smugglers. He has threatened to suspend all U.S. government handouts for the Colombian government. Trump warned Petro that he ‘better close up’ cocaine production ‘or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.’ Tapping his own psychiatric expertise, Trump proclaimed that Colombia has ‘the worst president they’ve ever had – a lunatic with serious mental problems.’ Is anyone in the Trump White House aware of the long history of U.S. failure in that part of the world?” (10/23/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-sordid-history-of-u-s-aid-to-colombia