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Colombia’s Petro to Visit US-Blockaded Cuba
Summary
Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro will visit his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel to discuss the United States’ “policy of strangulation” on the communist island, Colombia’s foreign minister said Thursday. Petro is set to visit the island nation on Friday, just one week before his mandate expires and brings Colombia’s first-ever leftist government to a close.
The trip to "the attacked Cuba" takes on greater importance before the next inauguration of Abelardo de la Espriella, whose announced foreign policy, Petro said, "will isolate Colombia from the small circle of friends of genocide."
The president of Colombia is preparing for his last international trip while his successor, Abelardo de la Espriella, intends to break relations with Havana.
The 48-hour visit will include meetings with President Miguel Díaz-Canel and will take place less than a week after the change of government in Colombia