2026年3月20日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:48 / CBS新闻
消息人士周五告诉CBS新闻，哥伦比亚总统古斯塔沃·佩特罗是纽约联邦检察官正在调查的多起毒品走私案件的调查对象。
一名消息人士称，这些分别由纽约南区和东区发起的独立毒品走私调查最初并未将佩特罗列为调查目标，但在调查过程中他的名字多次出现。
该消息人士补充道，这些调查仍处于非常早期的阶段，目前尚不清楚佩特罗是否会面临任何刑事指控。成为调查对象并不一定意味着个人会被起诉，“调查对象”这一术语仅指相关行为在调查范围内。而“目标”是调查的直接焦点，由于有大量证据，面临被起诉的可能性很高。
《纽约时报》首先报道了佩特罗的名字在多起毒品走私调查中出现的事实。
一名消息人士表示，白宫并未要求对佩特罗展开任何调查，他的名字是在其他毒品走私调查中自然出现的。
在社交平台X上，佩特罗在一条经翻译的帖子中表示：“我一生中从未与毒贩交谈过”，并声称自己花了十年时间“谴责最有权势的毒贩与国会政客之间的联系”。他还补充说，在竞选期间，他“一直告诉我的团队成员”，不会接受银行家或毒贩的捐款。佩特罗预测，美国调查的结果最终将有助于“拆解在我国极右翼针对我提出的指控”。
佩特罗与特朗普总统的关系一直紧张。去年在联合国的一次演讲中，佩特罗呼吁对特朗普提起刑事诉讼，并称他为“新希特勒”。
特朗普政府指责哥伦比亚政府未能遏制可卡因产量激增。去年10月，特朗普称佩特罗是“非法毒品头目”，财政部长斯科特·贝森特宣布对佩特罗及其家人实施制裁，称他“允许贩毒集团猖獗并拒绝制止此类活动”。
但今年1月的一次通话似乎缓和了双方的分歧。特朗普和佩特罗都称这次通话是积极的，总统表示两人计划在白宫会面。
去年10月，美国财政部宣布对佩特罗、其家人（包括妻子维罗妮卡）以及内政部长阿曼多·贝内代蒂等盟友实施制裁，理由是他们涉嫌与贩毒网络有关联。在哥伦比亚，对佩特罗最亲密的助手也展开了多项调查。
最严重的案件涉及佩特罗的儿子尼古拉斯·佩特罗。他于2023年因洗钱和非法致富指控被捕，被控收受与贩毒有关人士的资金。
在法庭上，尼古拉斯承认非法资金流入了他父亲的竞选活动，但称古斯塔沃·佩特罗对此并不知情。这是一起正在进行的案件，佩特罗的儿子目前正在配合哥伦比亚当局调查。
此外，针对2022年总统竞选资金的正式调查也在进行中，其中包括一项关于可能存在非法捐款和违反支出限制的调查。这些调查的焦点是佩特罗的前竞选经理里卡多·罗亚，他目前是哥伦比亚国家石油公司Ecopetrol的总裁。罗亚尚未被定罪，但该公司的工会正试图将其解雇。
2023年，现任内政部长贝内代蒂在一段泄露的录音中被听到称自己为佩特罗2022年总统竞选活动筹集了巨额资金，并威胁要揭露竞选资金违规的不利信息。
这些录音是在贝内代蒂担任驻委内瑞拉大使期间录制的，当时并未提出任何指控。
几乎同时，佩特罗的幕僚长劳拉·萨拉比亚因一起涉及测谎测试和据称非法拦截其一名管家电话的丑闻短暂离职。萨拉比亚最近被任命为哥伦比亚驻英国大使，尽管她几乎不会说英语。
CBS新闻此前报道，在司法部正加大对古巴政治官员的调查力度之际，佩特罗的相关新闻受到关注。
今年早些时候，哥伦比亚政府还派遣军队进入委内瑞拉抓捕总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗，后者被带到纽约面临刑事指控。
乔·沃尔什和玛格丽特·布伦南对本报道有贡献。
Colombian President Gustavo Petro caught up in multiple narcotics trafficking probes, sources say
March 20, 2026 / 8:48 PM EDT / CBS News
Colombian President Gustavo Petro is the subject of several ongoing narcotics trafficking investigations being overseen by federal prosecutors in New York, sources told CBS News on Friday.
The separate narco-trafficking investigations, based out of New York’s Southern and Eastern districts, did not set out to target Petro initially, but his name has come up during the course of both probes, one of the sources said.
The probes are still in the very early stages and it is unclear if Petro could face any criminal charges, the source added. Being a subject of an investigation does not necessarily mean an individual will face charges, and the term “subject” refers to the fact that the conduct is within the scope of a probe. A target is the direct focus of an investigation and faces a high likelihood of an indictment due to substantial amounts of evidence.
The fact that Petro’s name has come up in several drug trafficking investigations was first reported by the New York Times.
The White House did not request any investigation into Petro, a source said, and his name came up organically in the course of the other drug-trafficking investigations.
On X, Petro said in a translated post that “never in my life have I spoken with a drug trafficker,” and had spent a decade “denouncing the links between the most powerful drug trafficker and the politicians in the Congress.” He added that during his campaigns, he has “always told my managers” that no donations were to be accepted from bankers or drug traffickers. Petro predicted that the outcome of the U.S. probes would ultimately help “dismantle the accusations” that have been leveled at him from the far right in his own country.
Petro and President Trump have had a fraught relationship. During a speech at the United Nations last year, Petro called for criminal proceedings against Mr. Trump and he also referred to him as the “New Hitler.”
The Trump administration has accused the Colombian government of failing to contain a spike in cocaine production. In October of last year, Mr. Trump called Petro an “illegal drug leader,” and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sanctions on Petro and his family, claiming he “has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity.”
But a phone call in January seemed to have smoothed over their differences. Both Mr. Trump and Petro characterized their call as positive, and the president said the two planned to meet at the White House at some point.
Last October, the Treasury Department announced sanctions on Petro, members of his family, including his wife Verónica, and allies like Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, citing alleged links to drug trafficking networks. In Colombia, there have been multiple investigations into Petro’s closest associates.
The most serious case involves Petro’s son, Nicolás Petro. He was arrested in 2023 on money laundering and illicit enrichment charges, accused of receiving money from individuals linked to drug trafficking.
In court, Nicolás admitted that illegal funds had made their way into his father’s campaign but also said Gustavo Petro didn’t know about it. It’s an ongoing case, and Petro’s son has been cooperating with authorities in Colombia.
There have been other formal investigations into the financing of the 2022 presidential campaign, including one on possible illegal donations and spending limit violations. The focus of those investigations was Ricardo Roa, Petro’s former campaign manager and currently president of Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol. He hasn’t been convicted but the company’s worker unions are trying to get him fired.
In 2023, Benedetti, now the interior minister, was heard in leaked audio claiming he’d secured massive sums of money for the Petro’s 2022 presidential campaign and threatening to reveal damning information about campaign financing violations.
The audio files were recorded when Benedetti was serving as ambassador to Venezuela. No charges were ever filed.
Around the same time, Petro’s chief of staff, Laura Sarabia, was briefly forced out over a separate scandal involving a polygraph test and alleged illegal phone interceptions of one of her housekeepers. Sarabia was recently appointed Colombia’s ambassador to the U.K., though she barely speaks English.
The news about Petro comes at a time when the Justice Department has been focused on ramping up efforts to target political officials in Cuba, CBS News previously reported.
Earlier this year, the government also sent forces into Venezuela to capture its president Nicolás Maduro, who was brought to New York City to face criminal charges.
Joe Walsh and Margaret Brennan contributed to this report.