Colombia's foreign minister, Rosa Villavicencio, said the government will formally protest recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump when she meets with John McNamara, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Bogotá, as diplomatic tensions have been on the rise between both countries following Washington's military operation in Venezuela.
Villavicencio said the meeting is intended to deliver a formal diplomatic note rejecting what she described as insults and threats directed at President Gustavo Petro. "The meeting we will have is precisely to present our note of rejection of these insults," she said, adding that the comments were not only directed at Petro personally but at Colombia's democratic institutions.
