The US State Department recently announced that it will revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro's US visa due to his alleged "reckless and incendiary actions." The decision was the result of the leftist leader's involvement in a pro-Palestine protest on September 26, 2025, in New York, where he had addressed world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly earlier that week.On September 26, Gustavo Petro took to his social media account to post a video addressing a group of demonstrators in New York, asking "nations of the world" to contribute soldiers for an army "larger than that of the United States," the BBC reported. Speaking in Spanish, the Colombian president encouraged the U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders, saying:"It (the global force) has to be bigger than that of the United States. That’s why from here, from New York, I ask all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity. Disobey Trump's order! Obey the order of humanity!"Following this, the US State Department announced its decision to revoke Gustavo Petro's US visa in an X post, claiming that the Colombian president "urged U.S soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence.""Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence. We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions," the post read.Department of State @StateDeptLINKEarlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence. We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.According to CNN, Petro was already en route to Bogota from New York when the State Department announced its decision to revoke his visa.Gustavo Petro called for Trump to face “criminal proceedings” over attacks on alleged drug trafficking boatsDuring his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2025, Gustavo Petro strongly condemned the United States' attack on alleged drug trafficking boats off the Caribbean coast.According to the Guardian, Washington stated that the attacks were part of an anti-drug operation to prevent illegal drug flow into the United States from Venezuela, whose president has been accused of running a cartel. Over a dozen people have been killed in the attacks, with Petro adding that he believed some of the deceased were Colombian citizens.Petro described those killed as "poor young people," calling for an investigation into President Trump and other officials for their attacks against “young people who simply wanted to escape poverty” while the bosses of the cartels lived in the US.“A criminal process must be initiated against those officials who are from the United States. This includes the senior official who gave the order, President Trump,” Petro said.Gustavo Petro speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York (Image via Getty)In a recent interview with the BBC on September 24, 2025, Gustavo Petro dubbed the United States' airstrikes on alleged drug trafficking boats an "act of tyranny", adding that the US could easily avoid deaths by arresting the crew instead of launching missiles at them."Why launch a missile if you could simply stop the boat and arrest the crew? That's what one would call murder...We have a long history of collaborating with American agencies and other agencies of carrying out maritime seizures of cocaine. No one has ever died before. There is no need to kill anyone," he said.Gustavo Petro is Colombia's first-ever left-wing leader and was elected president in August 2022. According to the Guardian, the ties between Colombia and the United States, which have been political allies for years, have reportedly soured under Petro's leadership.