The Cuban Government came out in defense of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroin the midst of his verbal confrontation with his United States counterpart, Donald Trump.
In messages on social networks, island authorities expressed their solidarity with Petro this Monday and rejected the “interference” and “fallacies” of the current United States Administration, which they considered a “new imperialist attack.”
“Dear President Gustavo Petro, the people of Our America are with you and with Colombia. We reject the interference and fallacies of the US Government,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote in X.
Diplomatic tensions between the US and Colombia escalated again this Sunday, after Trump announced the end of financial aid to the South American country for its alleged inaction in the fight against drug trafficking and accused Petro of being “a drug trafficking leader.”
In that sense, the Cuban president affirmed that Washington “attempts to reimpose the Monroe Doctrine in its relations with the sovereign nations of Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Dear President @petrogustavothe people of Our America are with you and with #Colombia.
We reject the interference and fallacies of the US Government that tries to reimpose the Monroe Doctrine in its relations with the sovereign nations of Latin America and the Caribbean. pic.twitter.com/SpH9vXTyKi
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) October 20, 2025
For his part, the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, also expressed in X his “support and solidarity” with Petro “in the face of the new imperialist onslaught” of the United States.
In his opinion, the statements of the US president “constitute a threat to Colombian sovereignty and seek to interfere in the internal affairs of that sister nation.”
Trump vs. Peter
Trump’s new attacks on Petro come a month after the United States removed Colombia from the list of countries fighting drugs, along with four other nations.
Then, Washington considered that Bogotá had “manifestly failed to comply” in the last year with its obligations under international anti-drug agreements.
After being accused of leading drug trafficking, Petro responded in X that Trump “is deceived” in his opinion of him and recommended that he “read Colombia well and determine where the drug traffickers are and where the Democrats are.”
In other subsequent publications, the Colombian president returned to the issue of drug trafficking and the influence of the United States as the main market for Colombian drugs. Also about the actions of your Government to stop this scourge.
The wars that Colombia has been experiencing for 5 decades, first urban until 1993, then rural, are due to cocaine consumption in the US; Although there have been contributions from US governments to peace in Colombia, they have remained meager and non-existent in recent years.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 20, 2025
For its part, the Colombian Foreign Ministry rejected Trump’s “direct threat against national sovereignty” and announced that it will go to “all international bodies” to defend it.
The Colombian Government called its ambassador to the United States, Daniel García-Peña, for consultations this Monday in the face of the new crisis in the bilateral relationship due to President Gustavo Petro’s criticism of the sinking of boats supposedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean Sea and the suspension of financial aid from Washington, announced by Trump.
This call comes at a time of bilateral tension due to the differences between both leaders regarding the United States’ anti-drug policy, and especially due to that country’s military deployment in the Caribbean, near Venezuela.
As part of that operation, at least seven boats have been sunk, killing about 30 people, some of whom were Colombians, according to Petro, who accused the United States of “murder” for the death of a fisherman.
EFE / OnCuba
