The U.S. government revoked Colombian President Gustavo Petro\u2019s visa over comments he made at a pro-Palestine protest on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,\u201d the State Department announced<\/a> on Friday.\u00a0“We will revoke Petro\u2019s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.”<\/p>\n Petro called for the liberation of Palestinians during his address to the pro-Palestine protesters outside the UN’s headquarters. <\/p>\n “That’s why from here, from New York, I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people,\u201d Petro said in Spanish, according to Reuters. \u201cDisobey the orders of [President] Trump. Obey the orders of humanity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The South American president stood alongside Roger Waters, the founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd, at the Friday protest. <\/p>\n On Saturday, Petro said that he arrived back in Bogot\u00e1, the capital of Colombia, to find out that he no longer had a visa. He slammed<\/a> the decision by the State Department, saying it \u201cbreaks all the immunity rules on which\u201d the United Nations and the General Assembly \u201care based.\u201d<\/p>\n He argued that his visa was revoked over his assertion that Israel’s war in Gaza is a “genocide,” which he said shows the U.S. is not complying with international law.\u00a0<\/p>\n Petro also noted the U.S.’s barring of the Palestinian Authority from attending this week’s events in New York. In late August, the State Department said it would revoke<\/a> U.S. visas for some members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, a decision made ahead of the UN General Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n