US Sanctions Colombia President After Drug Trafficking Claim (2)

President Donald Trump sanctioned Colombia’s leader and members of his inner circle for allegedly enabling drug trafficking, personally targeting an ideological foe and frequent critic of US policy.

The measures announced Friday by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control apply to President Gustavo Petro, his wife, one of his sons, and his interior minister and former campaign chief, Armando Benedetti.

All four were added to a “specially designated nationals list.” The move represents the lowest point in US-Colombia relations in more than a century, and risks further setting back once-close cooperation between the nations in ...