India, Sept. 27 -- The US State Department on Friday announced that Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa will be revoked due to his "incendiary actions" at a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York.

"Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence," a spokesperson for the state department tweeted.

"We will revoke Petro's visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions."

On Friday, Petro released a video of himself speaking Spanish to a large audience using a megaphone on his social media account, with his translator repeating his statements asking for "nations of the world" to send troops for an army "larger than that of the United States".

"That...