The government of Colombia accused the United States over the weekend of violating international law by revoking far-left President Gustavo Petro’s U.S. visa after he called for the U.S. military to disobey its commander in chief’s orders.
Officials in Bogotá condemned the decision as a “diplomatic weapon” and as a “violation” of Petro’s free speech rights.
In an official statement, the Colombian Foreign Ministry claimed that “denying or revoking a visa — as a diplomatic weapon — undermines the spirit of the 1945 [U.N.] Charter of on-site participation with the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression regardless of borders.”
“Otherwise, it would be essential to find a completely neutral host country that would allow, regardless of its bilateral relations and political and ideological positions, the Organization itself to issue an authorization to enter the territory of that new host State, in accordance with international law, on the understanding that diplomatic rules of immunity and access take precedence over common migration policy,” the statement read.
The far-left president vi
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