The State Department revoked the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he used his appearance at a pro-terrorist rally outside the UN building to encourage U.S. soldiers to mutiny and engage in violence. In a brief notice on X, the State Department stated that Petro was being run out of Dodge due to his "his reckless and incendiary actions."
Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence.
— Department of State (@StateDept) September 27, 2025
We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.
This is the speech he gave that drew the visa revocation.
Kick his boyfriend Roger Waters out toopic.twitter.com/KW6ZAsA5Vh
— Len Trexler (@LenTrexler) September 27, 2025
The high point is this:
“We must set up an army more powerful than that of the United States and Israel,” he said in Spanish in a video recording posted on his office’s official YouTube page, adding that he would present a resolution that would order the United Nations to configure an army whose first task is to help establish a Palestinian state.
Mr. Petro has been a vocal critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. In his speech to the protesters, which lasted about half an hour on Friday, he compared what he called a genocide there with the Holocaust.
“I ask all the soldiers of the United States Army not to point their guns at humanity,” he said. “Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity.”
If you listen to the last half of his diatribe, he seems to encourage an insurgency against Trump.
The proximate cause of this meltdown by Mr. Petro, a former communist guerrilla now employing the "one man, one vote, one time" path to power in Colombia, was Trump ordering the destruction of at least four drug boats originating in Venezuela. He demanded that Trump be put on trial for ordering the attacks.
He argued in New York on Tuesday that Trump must be investigated for giving the order for US forces to target “young people who simply wanted to escape poverty” while many cartel bosses live in the United States.
“A criminal process must be initiated against those officials who are from the United States. This includes the senior official who gave the order, President Trump,” Petro said.
Just a note, I don't care how freakin poor you are, you don't get to kill Americans to change that. Even if a lot of major cartel figures live in the U.S., and that is definitely a rebuttable presumption, that still doesn't change the fact that the cartels exist because of people running drugs for them.
While I'll concede this aging commie his 15 minutes of Resistance in the UN, taking his message to our streets is not only bad manners, even for a communist, and certainly beyond the pale. In an environment where more and more deranged leftists are turning to violence based on social media, we can't assume that a head of state calling for revolution will be received as merely a rhetorical flourish.
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