{"id":47932,"date":"2025-09-27T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47932"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:37:18","slug":"us-state-department-says-its-revoking-colombian-presidents-visa-after-remarks-at-new-york-city-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47932","title":{"rendered":"US State Department says it&#8217;s revoking Colombian president&#8217;s visa after remarks at New York City protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. State Department said it will revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who had traveled to New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cEarlier today, [Petro] stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,\u201d the State Department said in a post on the social media platform X. \u201cWe will revoke Petro\u2019s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/netanyahu-set-give-contentious-speech-united-nations\/story?id=125937350\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Petro, who traveled to New York for the U.N. General Assembly, participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration earlier Friday. In video clips posted to social media, he can be heard appealing to American soldiers &#8212; urging them to disobey orders from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Based on the video clips, there did not appear to be any uniformed U.S. service members in the audience listening to Petro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/us-state-department-revoking-colombian-presidents-visa-after\/story?id=125988185\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department said it will revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who had traveled to New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly. \u201cEarlier today, [Petro] stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,\u201d the State Department said in a post on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8682,1376,1375],"class_list":["post-47932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-colombian","tag-department","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47934,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47932\/revisions\/47934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}