Colombian President Gustavo Petro formally requested Portugal on Friday to extradite Diego Marín, known as ‘Papa Smurf’ or ‘Pitufo’, who is considered Colombia’s biggest smuggling kingpin.

Marín was arrested last December in northern Portugal after fleeing from Spain.

“I hope Portugal extradites the largest smuggler in Colombia’s contemporary history. Large-scale smuggling is nothing more than money laundering for major drug traffickers,” Petro stated on his X account.

According to Petro, “Diego Marín deeply infiltrated government institutions to sustain his destruction of national industry and facilitate money laundering through smuggling.”

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated on Friday that the aggressive actions of the United States pose a threat to international peace and criticized its recent decisions to use the Guantánamo Naval Base (in eastern Cuba) to detain 30,000 undocumented migrants and to relist the island as a state sponsor of terrorism.

“We will not remain silent in the face of such infamy, nor will we lose hope in humanity’s progress,” said the Cuban leader during the closing session of the 6th International Conference for the Balance of the World, held in Havanaand dedicated to Cuba’s national hero, José Martí (1853-1895).

Díaz-Canel pointed out that “the dominant political forces embrace fascist ideologies that humanity has sought to eradicate since the last century. These trends are a product of capitalism.”

Two days ago, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 30,000 undocumented migrants to the Guantánamo base, Díaz-Canel condemned the decision as an “act of brutality” and emphasized that the military facility is “located on illegally occupied Cuban territory.”

U.S. President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he would not allow the purchase of oil from Venezuela, as his predecessor Joe Biden did when he lifted a series of sanctions.

“Biden went and bought millions of barrels of oil. I’m not going to allow something that stupid to happen again,” Trump said in remarks to the media in the Oval Office.

The president was asked about the visit of his special envoy, Richard Grenell, to meet with Nicolás Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday.

“He (Grenell) is meeting with a lot of different people,” Trump responded.