US EditionTrump and Colombia’s Petro to Meet at White House in High-Stakes First Talks
The meeting aims to ease months of tensions including sanctions and threats, with focus on regional security and counternarcotics, amid 126 deaths in 36 US strikes, officials said.
- On February 3, President Donald Trump will host Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House to discuss curbing drug trafficking, boosting trade, and security after Petro's visa ban suspension.
- Following an early-January phone call, Colombia agreed to 20 deportation flights, with officials including Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio facilitating the cooperation, signaling a diplomatic thaw.
- United Nations research found potential cocaine production rose by at least 65% to over 3,000 tonnes during Petro, as Colombia's coca crop reached historic highs, and U.S. Treasury Department sanctions on Petro and family were waived for his Washington visit.
- Against a volatile regional backdrop, analysts Felipe Botero and other commentators warn the meeting could 'go off the rails' after the Jan. 3 U.S. raid in Caracas that captured Nicolás Maduro.
- With May elections looming, many Colombians voiced unease about President Gustavo Petro’s visit to the White House, with protests reported at Teatro Colón, Bogotá.
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Unpredictable Diplomacy: Trump and Petro's White House Meeting
Unpredictable Diplomacy: Trump and Petro's White House Meeting U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro convened at the White House on Tuesday, initiating a high-stakes dialogue aimed at overcoming deep-rooted ideological disparities. The pair, known for their unpredictable and often mercurial dispositions, met privately without the presence of the media.The discussion, witnessed by Vice President JD Vance, pivoted on an…
US and Colombian Presidents Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro will meet for the first time at the White House today, after months of tension between the two leaders.
At the center of the meeting is drug trafficking, since Washington claims that cocaine production has skyrocketed under Petro’s government
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has expelled a Colombian drug lord to the United States, where he is accused of drug trafficking, hours before his first meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House today, the French news agency AFP reports.
Bogotá, Colombia. Colombian President Gustavo Petro extradited in the early hours of Tuesday to a drug lord in the United States, hours before meeting in the White House with Donald Trump. Pressed by Washington, the leftist president resumed the extraditions of criminal leaders suspended for months in the midst of frustrated peace negotiations with the armed groups. Peter “made a very clear order on the weekend that the criminal alias Pipe Tuluá…
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