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Colombian President Gustavo Petro reportedly called President Donald Trump a “barbarian” this week, days after he ordered his country’s security forces to stop sharing intelligence with the U.S. until Washington halts its strikes on suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean.

Petro made the remark during an interview published Thursday by NBC News, which also quoted the Colombia president as saying his country would not “pass on the information because we would be collaborating with a crime against humanity.”

A White House official reiterated to Fox News Digital on Thursday that Trump has stated that Petro “is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that

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