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Colombian President in Response to US Sanctions: I Won't Take a Step Back

The United States adds Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his wife Verónica Alcocer, his son Nicolás Petro, and Interior Minister Armando Benedetti to the OFAC list of sanctioned individuals

Maduro accuses the United States of exerting power over Venezuela: "We are threatened by psychological warfare."

Petro urges the US to reduce drug use and "read more Gabriel García Márquez."

A U.S. strike against a drug vessel killed six suspected "narco-militants" in the Caribbean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said

Secretary of War Peter Hegseth on drug cartels: "They are ISIS, they are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere. My message to these networks: We will hunt you down, we will eliminate you, we will seek you out."

The U.S. flew B-1 bombers near Venezuela on Thursday, stepping up pressure on President Maduro only days after other American warplanes carried out an "attack demonstration." More missions could come soon

Trump confirms more than 3,000 criminal arrests, including members of the New Generation, MS-13, and Tren de Aragua organizations. "Since January 20, we have arrested more than 120,000 criminals."

Trump: "The cartels are waging war on America, and just as I promised in the campaign, we are waging war on them”

Trump: "The cartels are the ISIS of the western hemisphere"

Venezuela's defense minister vows to thwart any CIA operation against his country.

Two U.S. B-1B Lancer bombers flew a Caribbean patrol today, entering Venezuela’s ADIZ and nearing within 80 km of the coast, briefly switching off transponders in what appeared to be a strike simulation. The mission follows earlier B-52 and F-35 flights near Venezuela this month

The White House evades answering whether it will "seek regime change" in Venezuela: "I'm not going to get ahead of the president (Trump)." "What we've made clear is that this administration will not tolerate international narcoterrorism to bring drugs into the US."

Leavitt: "I don't think we're seeing deescalation from the unhinged leader of Colombia right now, and I don't think the president frankly is interested in that at this point."

Heavy clashes in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán likely due to a CJNG (possibly with Viagras support) offensive against Carteles Unidos, It appears CJNG is in the town which is a significant advancement for the group. Source: @Moreliactiva

The White House says an announcement on drug cartels will be made at 3:00 p.m. ET, per the White House pool

Trump calls the President of Colombia a "thug" and warns: he better watch it or we'll take very serious action against him and his country

The US attacks a drug boat off the coast of Colombia in the Pacific. "There were two narco-militants on board. Both were killed, and no US forces were injured in this attack," said Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War.

US Secretary of Defense: The raid was carried out in international waters, killing two drug-smuggling militants. None of our soldiers were injured.

US Secretary of Defense: Yesterday, we carried out a deadly raid in the eastern Pacific Ocean on a vessel belonging to a terrorist organization engaged in drug trafficking.

Ecuador’s prosecutor’s office says it will not detain the Ecuadorian survivor of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean - Reuters

The Syrian interior ministry says it seized about 12 million captagon stimulant pills in a raid on a drug smuggling network operating near Damascus

The moment the Ecuadorian Army bombed drug trafficking targets in Buenos Aires

The Foreign Ministry of Colombia asserts that Trump's statements against Petro are a threat to national sovereignty.

The United States attacked a boat believed to be belonging to the ELN, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "They will be hunted like al-Qaeda."

Petro: "Mr. Trump, Colombia has never been rude to the US; on the contrary, it has deeply loved its culture. But you are rude and ignorant toward Colombia. Read, as your chargé d'affaires in Colombia did, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I assure you that you will learn something from solitude. I don't do business, like you do. I'm a socialist. I believe in aid and the common good, and in the common goods of humanity, the greatest of all: life, endangered by your oil. If I'm not a businessman, much less a drug trafficker, there is no greed in my heart. I could never understand greed. A mobster is a human being who embodies the best of capitalism: greed. And I am the opposite: a lover of life and therefore a millennial warrior of life. Greed flees us, because life is more powerful."

The Anti-Narcotics Department raided a farm near Safira (SE. Aleppo) where cannabis plants were cultivated. They were destroyed while the owner & his son were arrested in the operation

Trump: President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Columbia. It has become the biggest business in Columbia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLUMBIA.

Ecuador’s Ministry of the Interior said Saturday that it received one of the survivors. Authorities told CNN the survivor “is being medically evaluated.” They added that “the corresponding legal process will follow” and gave no further details

Donald Trump shares video of the bombing of the drug-laden submarine