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The Guardian - US
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Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá

Trump-Petro meeting could end in detente or discord with Colombia leader

Petro could have a two-pronged agenda to meet Trump – personal and national.
Gustavo Petro could have a two-pronged agenda to meet Donald Trump – personal and national. Photograph: Franklin Jacome/Getty Images

One month ago, a White House meeting between Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, would have been unthinkable.

The US raid on Caracas to capture the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, brought already heated relations between them to a boil, with Trump warning the leftist Colombian leader “could be next”, claiming Petro was a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States”.

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