In a speech, the president invited the population of the capital, and the entire department of Cundinamarca, to gather at 4:00 p.m. (local time) in the central Plaza de Bolivar.

The call comes just as the United States’s offences on Colombia and President Donald Trump’s insults toward its head of state reach their peak.

Tensions escalated last Sunday when the White House official called Petro a “drug trafficking leader,” later insulting him again by calling him a “thug” and a “bad guy.”

According to Petro, the northern country’s escalation constitutes a threat of military invasion of his country and Venezuela, and he asserted that it will bring personal sanctions against him.

“President Trump doesn’t like us being out of control, and here I must inform my people and the world why I have become out of control: because they want a coup against me,” he stated during a Council of Ministers meeting held earlier this week.

He also explained that the attack goes beyond a personal attack and that, in collusion with far-right sectors in his country, he seeks to affect the presidential elections to be held in the nation in May 2026.

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