{"id":2501099,"date":"2025-10-20T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colombia-recalls-us-ambassador-amid-drug-feud-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:21:41","slug":"colombia-recalls-us-ambassador-amid-drug-feud-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colombia-recalls-us-ambassador-amid-drug-feud-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia recalls US ambassador amid drug feud with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolombia-recalls-us-ambassador-amid-drug-feud-with-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Colombia has recalled its ambassador to teh United States following President Donald Trump&#8217;s threats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerry-holds-1-million-stake-in-equity-fund-linked-to-uyghur-labor-abuse\/\" title=\"John Kerry Holds  Million Stake in Equity Fund Linked To Uyghur Labor Abuse\">impose additional tariffs<\/a> and conduct military strikes on drug production sites within Colombia. This move comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portlands-mayor-extends-state-of-emergency-amid-antifa-blm-terror-after-chauvin-trial\/\" title=\"Portland\u2019s mayor extends state of emergency amid Antifa, BLM terror after Chauvin trial\">amid heightened tensions<\/a> after the U.S. military launched several strikes on vessels linked to drug trafficking operations originating from Colombia and Venezuela. Trump accused Colombian president Gustavo Petro of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >enabling massive drug production<\/a> and announced intentions to cut U.S. subsidies to Colombia as punishment, threatening to destroy drug fields by force if Petro does not act. Colombia&#8217;s government has promised further updates on the diplomatic situation, stressing that the recalled ambassador was called back for consultations. The conflict highlights growing friction between the two countries over drug trafficking and U.S. intervention policies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Colombia recalls US ambassador after Trump threatens tariffs and strikes over drug trafficking<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2377777\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colombia<\/a> recalled its ambassador to the United States on Monday after President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> threatened to impose additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tariffs<\/a> on the South American nation and strike drug production fields within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, Daniel Garc&iacute;a-Pe&ntilde;a, has been recalled to Bogot&aacute; for consultations by President Gustavo Petro Urrego,&rdquo; Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio Mapy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ColombiaEmbUSA\/status\/1980274372578328668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>. &ldquo;The Government of Colombia will announce the corresponding decisions in due course.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3856848\/witkoff-kushner-gaza-reject-allegations-of-genocide\/\">Witkoff and Kushner reject allegations of &#8216;genocide&#8217; in Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3856595\/centrist-rodrigo-paz-wins-bolivia-presidential-runoff\/\">Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia&#8217;s presidential runoff, topping right-wing rival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3856504\/gaza-ceasefire-renewed-after-idf-strikes-hamas\/\">Gaza ceasefire &#8216;renewed&#8217; after strikes on Hamas, IDF says<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CancilleriaCol\/status\/1980249571331580035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate post<\/a>, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it will provide an update about the situation involving the recalled U.S. ambassador later Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes in the wake of the U.S. military&rsquo;s strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats affiliated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venezuela<\/a> and Colombia sailing in the Caribbean region toward the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has confirmed seven known strikes on such vessels, the latest being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3856345\/drug-vessel-strike-caribbean-hegseth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">boat operated<\/a> by a designated terrorist organization from Colombia. All three people aboard the vessel, or &ldquo;narco-terrorists&rdquo; as Secretary of War <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> said, died in that strike.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ej&eacute;rcito de Liberaci&oacute;n Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1v7oR879LC\">pic.twitter.com\/1v7oR879LC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecWar\/status\/1979930208472912048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While Trump maintains the U.S. military is only eliminating terrorists and drug traffickers, Colombian President Gustavo Petro argues otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign leader <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/petrogustavo\/status\/1979761472914801121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1979761472914801121%7Ctwgr%5E38dbf489c42a33cb154401eecbddd27e3f5c2065%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F3856259%2Ftrump-colombia-gustavo-petro-drug-fields-subsidies%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused the U.S.<\/a> of murdering a fisherman in one of its strikes last month. The allegation preceded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3856259\/trump-colombia-gustavo-petro-drug-fields-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump&rsquo;s fiery response<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-threatens-to-strike-colombian-drug-fields-cuts-subsidies\/\" title=\"... threatens to ... ...n ..., cuts subsidies\">illegal drug leader strongly encouraging<\/a> the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115401182824973489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on Truth Social<\/a>. &ldquo;It has become the biggest business in Colombia, 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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump then said he would pull subsidies from Colombia as punishment for facilitating drug production. He also urged Petro to close the drug fields, or else the U.S. will do it for him through force.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3856554\/trump-teases-new-colombia-tariff-drug-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP TEASES NEW COLOMBIA TARIFF OVER DRUG TRAFFICKING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for the threatened tariffs, Trump did not reveal many details other than the fact that he would announce the specific rate sometime Monday. Colombia currently pays 10% tariffs that Trump initially imposed in April.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent U.S. strike targeted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-says-strikes-against-drug-boats-go-against-all-of-our-tradition\/\" title=\"Paul says ...s against drug boats go against &#039;all of our tradition&#039;\">drug-carrying submarine<\/a> and killed two people aboard. The remaining two survivors, one from Ecuador and the other from Colombia, were repatriated to their respective nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia recalls US ambassador after Trump threatens tariffs, strikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2501100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25276857455121.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[15918,3817,65570,3634,32634],"class_list":["post-2501099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-colombia","tag-diplomacy","tag-drug-feud","tag-trump","tag-us-ambassador"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25276857455121.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501107,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501099\/revisions\/2501107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}