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Colombia Halts US Arms Purchases In Row Over Drug Fight Delisting

This combination of pictures created on September 15, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump speaking to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on September 5, 2025, and Colombia's President Gustavo Petro during the opening ceremony of the COP16 summit in Cali, Colombia on October 20, 2024. (Credit: AFP)

Colombia on Tuesday halted arms purchases from the United States, its biggest military partner, after Washington decertified the South American country as an anti-drugs ally for failing to halt cocaine trafficking.

On Monday, President Donald Trump denounced his leftist Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro for not only failing to curb cocaine production, but overseeing its surge to "all-time records."

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