{"id":165960,"date":"2025-09-27T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-revokes-visa-for-colombian-president-gustavo-petro-after-reckless-actions-in-new-york-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:46:16","slug":"us-revokes-visa-for-colombian-president-gustavo-petro-after-reckless-actions-in-new-york-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-revokes-visa-for-colombian-president-gustavo-petro-after-reckless-actions-in-new-york-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"US revokes visa for Colombian president Gustavo Petro after \u2018reckless\u2019 actions in New York – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a pro-Palestine protest, Petro urged US soldiers to \u2018disobey Trump\u2019s order\u2019 and \u2018not point their rifles at humanity\u2019
The US state department said on Friday it would revoke the visa of Colombian<\/a> leftist president Gustavo Petro for his \u201cincendiary actions\u201d during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York.
\u201cEarlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,\u201d the state department said on X.
\u201cWe will revoke Petro\u2019s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.\u201d
On his social media account, Petro<\/a> shared video of himself speaking Spanish to a large crowd through a megaphone on Friday, with his translator then relaying his comments calling on \u201cnations of the world\u201d to contribute soldiers for an army \u201clarger than that of the United States\u201d.
\u201cThat is why, from here in New York, I ask all soldiers in the United States army not to point their rifles at humanity. Disobey Trump\u2019s order! Obey the order of humanity!\u201d Petro said.
Colombian media reported Petro was already en route to Bogota from New York on Friday night.
Petro was in New York for the UN general assembly, where he rebuked the Trump administration<\/a> fiercely and called for a criminal inquiry into recent US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean in his Tuesday address.
Petro said unarmed \u201cpoor young people\u201d died in the strikes <\/a>\u2013 more than a dozen in total \u2013 but Washington contends the actions are part of a US anti-drug operation off the coast of Venezuela, whose president Washington accuses of running a cartel.
Trump has dispatched eight warships and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, and the biggest US deployment in years has raised fears in Venezuela<\/a> of an invasion.
Petro, whose country is the world\u2019s biggest cocaine producer, has said he suspects some of those killed in the US boat strikes were Colombian.
Last week, the Trump administration decertified Colombia as an ally in the fight against drugs, but stopped short of economic sanctions.
The countries are historical allies but ties have soured under Petro, Colombia\u2019s first-ever leftist leader.
Its interior minister, Armando Benedetti, wrote on X on Friday night that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s visa should have been revoked rather than Petro\u2019s.
\u201cBut since the empire protects him, it\u2019s taking it out on the only president who was capable enough to tell him the truth to his face.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At a pro-Palestine protest, Petro urged US soldiers to \u2018disobey Trump\u2019s order\u2019 and \u2018not point their rifles at humanity\u2019The US state department said on Friday it would revoke the visa of Colombian leftist president Gustavo Petro for his \u201cincendiary actions\u201d during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York.\u201cEarlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}