Bruce Willis
© AFP/Getty Images/File Peter KramerBOGOTA (AFP) - "This is an ungrateful attitude toward Colombia's sacrifices. This is arrogance, ignorance. This is an attitude that shocks the dignity of Colombia," Uribe said.
Uribe was referring to comments Willis made in an press conference late February in which he said Colombia's illicit cocaine trade is "killing" the United States, and likened it to terrorism.
"The United States and everyone who cares about protecting the freedoms that the largest part of the free world now has should do whatever it takes to end terrorism in the world. And not just in the Middle East," he said.
"I'm talking also about going to Colombia and doing whatever it takes to end the cocaine trade," the star of the hit "Die Hard" films said, according to a transcript on the Cinema Confidential website.
"It's killing this country. It's killing all the countries that coke goes into. I believe that somebody's making money on it in the United States. If they weren't making money on it, they would have stopped it. They could stop it in one day," he said during a press conference for his new film "16 Blocks".
The United States and Colombia have closely cooperated to fight drug trafficking. Washington has contributed more than 3.5 billion dollars to support Bogota's Plan Colombia anti-drug program since 2000.
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