Colombian President Gustavo Petro
"We are going to suspend coal exports to Israel until the genocide stops," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a post on X on Saturday.
He also posted a draft decree, which said that coal exports would only resume if the regime complied with a recent order by the International Court of Justice that mandated that Tel Aviv withdraw its troops from the Gaza strip.
Data provided by Colombia's National Statistics Department shows that the exports were worth more than $320 million in the first eight months of the last year.
According to the Colombian government, the export ban will enter into force five days after the decree was published in the official gazette.
On May 1, the Colombian head of state said the country had decided to cut its diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime over the war.
"And we here in front of you, the government of change, the president of the republic informs that tomorrow diplomatic relations" with the Israeli regime "will be cut," he said at the time, adding, "[We cut diplomatic ties] because of them having...a genocidal president."
More than 36,801 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the war that began after Al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation staged by Gaza's resistance groups.
Comment: With the weight of the US, UK, and Germany, propping up the genociders in Israel, whilst this will have some impact, it's unlikely to deter the pathocrats from their maniacal mission to eliminate Palestinians for their greater Israel project.
However, with the economies of the West slowly collapsing, the emerging multipolar alliance do stand a chance of having a more significant impact on Israel's plans. And that might be at least one reason why the West-Israel have chosen now as their moment to try to incite a worldwide chaos and war: