Colombian President Gustavo Petro is seemingly no longer welcome in the United States.
Petro, a former member of the 19th of April Movement guerrilla group and Colombia’s first leftist president, claimed the Trump administration revoked his visa to attend meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
He is instead be replaced by the Minister of Finance Germán Avila, who is in Washington, D.C. this week.
The major international snub comes after Donald Trump threatened ‘decisive retaliatory measures’ against government officials over Colombia’s refusal to let two US Military flights full of migrants land in January.
‘I can’t go anymore because I think they’ve revoked my visa,’ Petro said during a Council of Ministers meeting on Monday.
‘I didn’t need a visa, but hey, I’ve seen Donald Duck several times. So, I’m off to see other things.’
It was unclear when exactly Petro had his travel visa suspended. DailyMail.com reached out to the Department of State for comment.
Petro previously visited the United States in September 2024 for a climate conference in Chicago, as well as the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro (right, bottom row) revealed Monday that he no longer can travel to the United States because his visa was revoked
The administraiton of President Donald Trump has banned Colombian President Gustavo Petro from visiting the United States
In April 2023, he was hosted at the White House by former President Joe Biden. However, there has been an ongoing rift with the current administration.
Petro clashed with Trump after he blocked two military flights deporting Colombian nationals from the United States on January 26.
The Colombian leader slammed the Trump administration for the treatment of 160 people, who were handcuffed on the planes
Trump responded by threatening to impose a 25 percent tariff on incoming good and visa restrictions and sanctions and vowed to increase the tax by an additional 25 percent.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro was stripped of his visa nearly three months after he got into an social media spat with United States President Donald Trump of the deportation of 201 Colombians
Colombian migrants deported from the United States wait inside El Dorado International Airport after arriving in Bogotá, Colombia on January 28
A Colombian Red Cross worker speaks with a Colombian migrant, who was among the 201 who were deported from the United States, upon arrival at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia, on January 28
Colombian citizens exit a military aircraft in Bogotá, Colombia on January 28 following their deportation from the United States
‘I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.
All ‘party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government’ also will face visa sanctions,’ Trump added.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio then joined the fray by releasing a statement, alleging that Petro had previously agreed to accept the deportation flights, but canceled them once the planes were already in the air.
Petro retaliated by announcing U.S. imports would be face a 25 percent tax before he eventually backed down and agreed to accept the migrants.
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