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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Colombian president says US has revoked his visa and appears to mock Trump as ‘Donald Duck’

Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro has claimed that U.S. officials have revoked his visa, a claim the State Department would not immediately confirm.

Petro was speaking during a televised meeting of his cabinet called to address an outbreak of yellow fever, according to The City Paper Bogotá. The president spent several days in January engulfed in a conflict with the Trump administration about accepting Colombian nationals deported from the United States, before backing down.

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