on january 7, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump shared an amicable phone call, after which Trump declared that he would “look forward to meeting him in the near future” in Washington.
Somebody less demented than the U.S. president might perceive an obstacle to his offer: in September, the Department of State announced on X that it would be revoking Petro’s visa “due to his reckless and incendiary actions,” which entailed denouncing the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip while in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Objectively speaking, the campaign to flatten Gaza would seem rather more “incendiary”: an action that has officially produced seventy-one thousand dead, although some experts believe the toll to be as much as ten times higher. Among other remarks, Petro had taken it upon himself to critique the U.S. leader’s participation in the carnage: “If Mr. Trump continues to be complicit in genocide as he has been to date, he deserves nothing more than prison, and his army should not obey him.” READ MORE AT THE BAFFLER.