India, Jan. 6 -- Colombian President Gustavo Petro has issued a challenge to US President Donald Trump following a United States operation in Venezuela. On Monday, Petro criticized the operation and addressed Trump with the statement, "Come get me. I'm waiting for you here."

"If they [the US] bombs, the campesinos will become thousands of guerrillas in the mountains. And if they detain the president which a large part of the country loves and respects, they will unleash the 'jaguar' of the people," Petro warned the POTUS after US captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

"I swore not to touch a weapon again ... but for the homeland I will take up arms again," he added.

Reacting to Petro's remark, one X user wrote: "Maduro gave the ...