Colombia’s Petro To Visit White House In February
President Donald Trump will host Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House in early February, he announced Friday on Truth Social, marking an abrupt detente in the relationship between two men who have clashed often since Trump’s return to the Oval Office.
Staunching the flow of narcotics into the U.S., Trump said, will be at the top of the agenda.
“I am sure it will work out very well for Colombia, and the U.S.A., but, cocaine and other drugs must be STOPPED from coming into the United States,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Just last Sunday, Trump suggested to reporters aboard Air Force One that he could soon go after Petro, mere hours after American officials captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the U.S. to face narco-terrorism charges. In December, Trump told reporters Petro “better wise up or he’ll be next” in the administration’s drug trafficking crackdown.
The Colombian president responded this week with a spree of defiant social media posts, declaring on Tuesday, “It’s time to defend our national sovereignty” and pushing back on allegations that his government is abetting the global drug trade.
But the two made peace in a phone call Wednesday, with Trump writing on social media that he appreciated Petro’s “tone” and reporting that arrangements were being made for an imminent visit.
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