India, Jan. 5 -- Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla who laid down arms to become one of Latin America's most successful leftist leaders, has said he's ready to "take up arms" if Donald Trump follows through with his threats after the US military's regime-change strike in neighboring Venezuela.

"I swore not to touch a weapon again... but for the homeland I will take up arms again," Petro said on X, as per a report by news agency AFP.

Trump said over the weekend that Petro should "watch his ass", and described Colombia's first-ever leftist leader as "a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States".

Trump and the US administration had made similar allegations of narco-terror against Maduro and h...