LATEST: Amid the war against drug trafficking, the Colombian president will sue his Ecuadorian counterpart for defamation
In a major development, the following story has emerged from the international scene.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Sunday that he would criminally prosecute for defamation his Ecuadorian counterpart Daniel Noboa who accuses him of having held meetings with suspected drug traffickers in Ecuador, a new escalation between the two countries engaged in a trade war for months. “I have decided to criminally prosecute President Noboa for defamation,” declared the Colombian leader on X. Gustavo Noboa recently told the magazine Colombian Semana that Gustavo Petro had met members of the Citizen Revolution movement, led by former socialist president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), during a private visit to the port of Manta (southwest) on the occasion of his participation in the inauguration of the Ecuadorian in 2025. Very very muscular diplomacy “Some of these members have links with Fito”, pseudonym of the Ecuadorian José Adolfo Macías, head of the powerful drug trafficking group Los Choneros, linked to the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, extradited to the United States after Petro’s visit to this fishing port. “I cannot say at the moment whether he met Fito in person. But let’s say he was with the same group and in the same region,” Gustavo Noboa further argued. “I don’t know if going somewhere in Ecuador implies the suspicion of shady contacts,” quipped Gustavo Petro, who announced that he would publish the list of Ecuadorians captured and extradited under his government “so that there is no doubt” about his fight against organized crime. Daniel Noboa criticizes, among other things, Gustavo Petro for his alleged lack of support in the fight against drug trafficking on the border between the two countries which is engaged in since February a trade war with 100% customs duties. The crisis worsened on the diplomatic level after Gustavo Petro described Jorge Glas, former vice-president of the former socialist leader Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017, as a “political prisoner” and convicted of corruption, which led to the recall of the ambassadors of the two countries.
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