The Trump administration revokes the Petro visa on presumed incendiary actions

The Trump administration announced on Friday evening that it revoked the American president of Colombian President Gustavo Petro for “reckless and incendiary actions alleged” in New York.

“Earlier in the day, the Colombian president @petrogustavo was held in a street in New York and urged American soldiers to disobey orders and encourage violence,” read an article on the X Department of the United States. “We will revoke the Petro visa because of its reckless and incendiary actions.”

Fox News Digital contacted the Colombian Embassy but did not hear say before the publication.

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Colombia President Gustavo Petro Urrego addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at the UN headquarters (Photo / Pamela Smith)

The revocation of the visa intervenes this week in the annual assembly of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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In a fiery speech earlier this week, Petro called for a criminal investigation against President Donald Trump and other administration officials for fatal strikes on boats in the Caribbean who, according to the White House, transported drugs.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during the International Workers’ Day in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP photo / Fernando Vergara)

Petro has repudiated attacks, calling them an “act of tyranny”, while accusing Trump of criminalizing poverty and migration.

“Criminal procedures must be opened up against officials, who are in the United States, even if this includes the highest official who has given the order: President Trump,” said Petro about strikes, adding that boat passengers were not members of the Venezuelan gang Tren of Aragua as the Trump administration claimed after the first attack.

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If the boats transported drugs as the US government claims, said Petro, their passengers “were not drug traffickers; they were simply young Latin America who had no other option”.

This image shows President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. (Getty)

Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla warfare and the first left chief in Colombia, had a difficult relationship with Trump since the inauguration.

In January, Trump threatened to impose prices of 50% on all imports of the Latin American country if it did not accept military planes full of Colombians expelled as part of the Trump’s expulsion scan. Petro threatened to retaliate with counter prices, but then gave in and agreed to raise his ban on flights.

In April, Petro said that the Trump administration had revoked its travel visa in the United States at a firm meeting this month, Petro said that he could not attend meetings with international organizations in Washington, DC because “they won my visa”.

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“I didn’t need to have one, but anyway, I’ve seen Donald Duck several times, so I’m going to go see other things,” said Petro.

Caitlin McFall of Fox News Digital, Anders Hagstrom and the Associated Press contributed to this report.