Colombian President Gustavo Petro has defiantly shrugged off the US decision to revoke his visa, describing the move as another attempt by...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has defiantly shrugged off the US decision to revoke his visa, describing the move as another attempt by Washington to silence calls for action on Palestine.
Petro, who returned to his country after attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, said he no longer had a visa to travel to the US but added, “I don’t care.”
He explained that he did not need a visa because he is not only a Colombian citizen but also a European citizen. Petro added that he considers himself “a free person in the world” and that every person on earth must be free.
The visa revocation came after Petro publicly urged US soldiers to reject orders from President Donald Trump and instead “obey the orders of humanity.”
Petro, who has previously clashed with the Trump administration over migration and drug trafficking issues, repeated his call for an armed force to “free Palestine” while addressing a group of pro-Palestine supporters outside the UN headquarters on Friday.
In a video posted to social media, Petro can be heard saying that the global force “has to be bigger than that of the United States.”
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