Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he feared being captured like Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and was set to begin sleeping in the presidential palace before having a friendly phone call with Donald Trump that helped to defuse tensions, according to a new report.
Speaking to The New York Times, Petro said he was set to sleep next to the sword of Simon Bolivar, an independence hero in South America, concerned that Trump would try to justify a capture by trying to link him to Maduro.
