President Donald Trump sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday in a drastic escalation of their feud.

Tensions had been rising for months over Petro and Trump’s major divergence in approach around the War on Drugs. Several hostile moves from each side culminated in the U.S. sanctioning the head of what was, in previous years, one of the United States’s closest allies in the War on Drugs.

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“Since President Gustavo Petro came to power, cocaine production in Colombia has exploded to the h

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