The U.S. State Department has revoked the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, describing his comments as “reckless and incendiary.”
The move followed a speech Petro delivered to pro-Palestinian demonstrators near the UN headquarters in New York, where he urged U.S. soldiers to “disobey President Donald Trump’s orders and follow the orders of humanity.”
It also came after his official address to the UN General Assembly, in which he accused Trump of being “complicit in genocide” in Gaza and called for him to be prosecuted.
Petro, in New York for the UN meetings, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war in Gaza. He had previously halted coal exports to Israel.
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