US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday branded Colombian President Gustavo Petro a “lunatic” after tensions with the leftist leader over a deadly US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat. “I think the Colombian authorities, when it comes to, like, the military and the police, are still very pro-American. The only problem in Colombia is a lunatic president,” Rubio told reporters. Earlier on Wednesday, President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Petro traded angry threats as the US announced strikes on what it called drug-smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean that left five people dead.
