A Friday Call With One Big Ask
On July 3, Gustavo Petro picked up the phone to Donald Trump for a conversation that Colombia's presidency later summarized in a public statement. According to that readout, Petro spent much of the call pushing to get himself and members of his family removed from the U.S. Treasury's sanctions list — restrictions that have frozen their financial standing in the U.S. since the fall of 2025. Trump's answer, relayed through Petro's own account of the exchange, was friendly but noncommittal: he'd do what he could to get the matter looked at again.
