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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London.
I'm James Kimarasami.
Some diplomatic incidents can be accidental, inadvertent, others can be very deliberate.
The reason for the US State Department announcing on Friday that it was revoking the visa of the Colombian President Gustavo Petro falls into the latter category.
The left-wing leader, a staunch opponent of the Trump administration,
used his visit to New York for the UN General Assembly to address a pro-Palestinian demonstration and to say this.
In a post on X, the State Department wrote that the Colombian president had, quote,
urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence, adding,
we will revoke Petro's visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.
Well, earlier in the week, in an interview with the BBC,
President Petro had criticised the recent US airstrikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean,
which are reported to have killed 17 people.
launching missiles over sovereign waters outside the United States is an act of tyranny.
And what is happening there is a tyranny.
We cannot know if these young people were migrants or
if they were working for drug trafficking mafias.
And in both situations, they have no right.
Mr. Trump has no right to launch a missile against them.
Well,