The US Department of State announced Friday (26.09.2025) that it will revoke the visa of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, for its “incendiary actions” during a street protest in New York.
“Today, the Colombian president @Perogustovo has demonstrated in a street in New York and has urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,” said the State Department in a publication in X.
“We will revoke Petro’s visa due to its reckless and incendiary actions,” said the State Department.
Petro, who is in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, told a crowd gathered in front of the UN Headquarters: “I ask all the soldiers of the United States Army who do not sign up for people with their weapons. They disobey the orders of (President Donald) Trump. Obdose the orders of humanity!”
Bogotá did not issue comments immediately
His office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia did not respond immediately to the requests for comments, said the Reuters agency.
In his speech at the world meeting on Tuesday, Petro also lashed out at Trump, saying that the American leader was “complicit of the genocide” in Gaza and asked “criminal procedures” for attacks with American missiles against suspicious ships of traffic with drugs in the waters of the Caribbean.
Petro’s profile on social networks showed on Friday that he had republished several videos in which he appeared speaking at a meeting of Pro Palestinian protesters in New York.
“Free Palestine. If Gaza falls, humanity dies,” Petro said in an X publication.
The Colombian president, an opponent declared to the war in Gaza and has suspended coal exports to Israel.
JC (AFP, EFE, REUTERS, DPA)
