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President tells Trump 'you'll wipe out human species' as brutal tariff war rages
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump and accused him of being a 'destroyer of the human species'
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has launched a fiery and somewhat unconventional tirade against Donald Trump, accusing him of potentially causing the "wipe out [of] the human species because of greed." The stinging and at times bizarre statement came after Petro declared he would impose a huge 25 per cent tax on US imports in response to the US President slapping similar tariffs on Colombia, following the country's refusal to accept two planes carrying deported migrants.
Barely a week into his second term in office, President Trump ordered a series of punitive measures against Colombia's government in response to its refusal, slapping escalating tariffs on the country as well as issuing visa bans to members of President Petro's inner circle. Trump said these steps were necessary after Petro "jeopardised" the US' national security by refusing the deportation flights.
"These measures are just the beginning," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the United States."
After caving to US pressure over the deportation flights, Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, announced that the South American country's presidential aircraft had been made available to facilitate the return of migrants who were to arrive hours earlier on the US military airplanes and guarantee them "dignified conditions". Now both sides are threatening a trade war, with a 50 per cent mutual tariff set to come into effect next week.
Taking a Trumpian approach to international diplomacy, Petro responded on social media by expressing his disdain for travelling to the US, before making a cutting remark about race relations in the states. He said: "Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together."
Going further in his lengthy social media tirade, the Mirror US reports Petro recognising several American figures, saying: "I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller," before remarking on historic immigrant labourers, "I confess that [Nicola] Sacco and [Bartolomeo] Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country."
Petro didn't mince words about his contempt for Trump's environmental policies either by lambasting the US, saying: "I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed," he furiously wrote. The US president has been keen to repeat his administration's policy on new oil licences in the days following his inauguration, repeating the slogan: "Drill baby drill."
The Colombian leader went on to slam Trump's perceived attitudes on race, stating: "Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.
"So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period," Petro declared. "You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves.
"Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last."
"You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas," he added.
According to Petro: "They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else." Petro states that should the American president try and silence his voice, "the Americas and humanity will respond.
"Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness," Petro concluded. "From today on, Colombia is open to the entire world, with open arms, we are builders of freedom, life and humanity.
"I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labour to enter the United States, and I do the same.Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.
"We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom."
