Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday that he is ready to “take up arms” against the US after President Trump threatened military action in Colombia.

President Gustavo Petro made the remarks after Trump said Colombia is 'run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.'

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the former FARC rebel group issued defiant statements following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have crossed the Darién Gap, a treacherous, roadless zone between Colombia and Panama, on their way north to Central America and the United States. One of Mr. Colmenares’s sons is in detention in the United States, he said.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has rejected a plea from Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro for military support against the United States. "I cannot give orders to the Venezuelan army, nor can anyone there give orders to the Colombian army," Petro ...