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As "Israel" continues its genocide in Gaza for almost 11 months, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has signed a decree earlier this week, officially banning coal exports to the occupation entity.

The decree, dated August 14 was published on the presidential website.

Last May, the Colombian President announced cutting ties with "Israel" for having a "genocidal" president".

Petro later announced in June the suspension of coal exports to the occupation entity.

In a social media post then, he stated that exports would cease "until the genocide is stopped."

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wow. AFAIK Colombia has been israel's largest coal supplier, while the next largest suppliers are South Africa (ironically enough) and Russia, so this could be a pretty big deal.

South Africa and Russia have an opportunity to do something extremely funny rn