WASHINGTON: The US State Department said it would revoke the visa of Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro, who returned to Bogota on Saturday after being accused of “incendiary actions” during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York. Petro was in New York for the UN General Assembly, where he fiercely rebuked US President Donald Trump’s administration and called for a criminal inquiry into recent US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean in his Tuesday address.

Gustavo Petro told the BBC that "there is no need to kill anyone" in efforts to crackdown on maritime drug smuggling.

The Colombian leader was filmed joining thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters outside UN headquarters in New York.