Days after threatening Colombia with military action, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said arrangements were being made for the country’s President Gustavo Petro to visit the White House, following a call \u2060between the two leaders. Trump and Petro said they discussed relations between the two countries in their first call \u200csince the U.S. president \u2060on Sunday said that a U.S. military operation focused on Colombia’s government “sounds good” to him. That threat followed Trump ordering the U.S. capture of the president of \u200dneighboring Venezuela, who was flown to the U.S. to face drug and weapons charges. “It was a great honor to speak with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called to explain the situation of drugs and other \u2060disagreements that we have had. I appreciated his call and tone, and look forward to meeting him in the near future,” Trump wrote on social media. Trump added “arrangements are being made” for a meeting in Washington between himse
lf and Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, but gave no \u200cspecific date for a meeting. “We have spoken by phone for the first time since he became president,” Petro told supporters gathered at a rally in Bogota meant to celebrate Colombia’s sovereignty, adding he had requested \u2060a restart of dialogue between the two countries. A source in Petro’s office told Reuters the call was “cordial” and “respectful.” Relations between Trump and Petro have been frosty since the Republican returned to the White House in January 2025. Trump has repeatedly accused the administration of Petro, without evidence, of enabling a steady flow \u2060of cocaine into the U.S., imposing sanctions on the Colombian leader in October. On Sunday Trump referred to Petro as “a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” The U.S. in September had \u200drevoked Petro’s visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York following a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Days after threatening Colombia with military action, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said arrangements were being made for the country’s President Gustavo Petro to visit the White House, following a call \u2060between the two leaders. Trump and Petro said they discussed relations between the two countries in their first call \u200csince the U.S. president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n