Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday that a suspension of aid from the United States would mean nothing to his country but that changes to military funding could have an effect.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend to raise tariffs on Colombia and said Wednesday that all funding to the country had been halted.

Colombia was once among the largest recipients of U.S. aid in the Western Hemisphere but the flow of money was suddenly curtailed this year by the shuttering of USAID, the U.S. government’s humanitarian assistance arm. Military cooperation has continued.

“What happens if they take away aid? In my opinion, nothing,” Petro told journalists, adding that aid funding often moved through U.S. agencies and employed Americans.

But a cut to military coope

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