Colombian President Gustavo Petro signed yesterday on Sunday, August 18, a decree to suspend coal exports from his country to Israel.
This same, country had announced the rupture of diplomatic relations with Israel, qualifying the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “genocidal” in his conduct of the war in the Gaza Strip.
“We will suspend charcoal exports to Israel until it stops the genocide,” this leftist leader on the left. This measure will remain in place as long as the war in the Gaza Strip continues, he said.
A decree of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry specifies that the suspension of coal exports will apply “until the provisional measures ordered by the Internal Court”.
