{"id":224112,"date":"2026-01-09T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=224112"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:46:15","slug":"colombian-president-says-there-is-real-threat-of-us-military-action-against-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/224112\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian president says there is \u2018real threat\u2019 of US military action against country"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Colombia&rsquo;s President Gustavo Petro has told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwygjvkvpgro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> that he believes there is now a &ldquo;real threat&rdquo; of US military action against Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Petro said the United States is treating other nations as part of a US &ldquo;empire&rdquo;. It comes after Trump threatened Colombia with military action.<\/p>\n<p>Petro said that the US risks transforming from &ldquo;dominating the world&rdquo; to becoming &ldquo;isolated from the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also accused US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of acting like &ldquo;Nazi brigades&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Following US strikes on Venezuela and the seizure of Nicol&aacute;s Maduro, US President Donald Trump said a military operation targeting Colombia &ldquo;sounds good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia&rsquo;s President Gustavo Petro has told the BBC that he believes there is now a &ldquo;real threat&rdquo; of US military action against Colombia. Petro said the United States is treating other nations as part of a US &ldquo;empire&rdquo;. It comes after Trump threatened Colombia with military action. Petro said that the US risks transforming from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":224107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224113,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224112\/revisions\/224113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}