This Friday, from the Casa de Nariño, President Gustavo Petro delivered a surprise address focused on the decertification of Colombia announced by the government of his US counterpart, Donald Trump.

Measure taken by the Trump administration after it discovered that the current Colombian government had failed to meet its goals for eradicating illicit coca crops.

In the statement by the head of state, he denounced that the decertification against Colombia was unfair, stating that it was a trap and slander against the country.

Likewise, Petro took advantage of the space where his speech was broadcast on public and private channels to criticize the military actions of the United States in the Caribbean Sea, pointing out that it will have consequences for Colombia.

"An urgent and immediate problem due to its public relevance, undoubtedly for the past few months, and increasingly worse, in a manner of constructing a geopolitical discourse, we now have missiles targeting fishermen in the Caribbean, where Colombia has its sea and its islands. I wouldn't say anything about drug traffickers, because drug traffickers live in luxury cities, not on fishing boats in the Caribbean Sea," the head of state stated.

Added to this, he explained: “And with searches that, as I have already said publicly, have nothing to do with stopping the cocaine market or the fentanyl market, which is exclusively within the United States, but rather with a purpose that I describe as the oil greed that has fueled all the wars we have seen in the 21st century, genocides, one, just happened, I hope it ends, but it undoubtedly affects our country, because we are in both worlds.”