{"id":499232,"date":"2026-02-03T14:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-and-petro-meet-at-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:21:44","slug":"trump-and-petro-meet-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/trump-and-petro-meet-at-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Petro meet at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, met with his American counterpart Donald Trump. The greeting between the leaders took place this Tuesday in the East Room of the White House, on the eve of a private meeting.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Saludo en el Sal\u00f3n Este de la Casa Blanca, entre el Jefe de Estado Colombiano, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petrogustavo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PetroGustavo<\/a>, y el Presidente Donald Trump, previo a su reuni\u00f3n privada. <br><br>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infopresidencia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Infopresidencia<\/a> | Gobierno de Colombia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PbfEHXsY9k\">pic.twitter.com\/PbfEHXsY9k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Presidencia Colombia \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 (@infopresidencia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infopresidencia\/status\/2018727204008431861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nLater, the officials went to the Oval Office, where they held an expanded meeting with the participation of the delegations. On the Colombian side, among others, the chancellor, Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, participated, while on the American side, the vice president, J.D. Vance, and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, were present.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Months of tensions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe bilateral meeting has been proposed by both Washington and Bogot\u00e1 in terms of an opportunity to smooth out rough edges and rebuild bilateral ties, deteriorated after months of cross-accusations between both leaders, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/esrt.space\/actualidad\/565174-eeuu-detallar-alcances-exencion-descertificacion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decertification<\/a>&nbsp;of the South American country in the fight against drug trafficking, the withdrawal of the US visa and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/esrt.space\/actualidad\/573389-petro-tomar-decision-radical-lista-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imposition<\/a>&nbsp;of sanctions on the Colombian president, and strong criticism from the latter to the US bombings against small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, labeled without evidence as \"narco-boats\".\n\nAt the height of the situation, Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/580556-trump-acusar-petro-operacion-secuestro-maduro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeled<\/a>&nbsp;without evidence his counterpart as a&nbsp;leader of the international drug trade, while Petro accused the U.S. of resorting to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/580890-petro-inexistente-cartel-soles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsification<\/a>&nbsp;comparable to the non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,&nbsp;<strong>to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/562478-excusa-derribar-gobiernos-petro-cartel-de-los-soles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">militarily attack<\/a>&nbsp;Venezuela<\/strong>, depose its Government and thus seize its oil.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\nLikewise, the Colombian president <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/580399-petro-exhorta-america-latina-emanciparse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urged<\/a>&nbsp;the region to&nbsp;\"emancipate\" from the US orbit<\/strong> after the US bombings on Greater Caracas on January 3. This was followed by threats from Trump to undertake a similar operation in Colombia.\n\nHowever, the waters receded four days later, when the first telephone exchange between the two took place and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/581094-trump-cambia-tono-petro-ahora-quiere-reunion-meses-insultos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a>&nbsp;of Petro's official visit to Washington was made.&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, met with his American counterpart Donald Trump. The greeting between the leaders took place this Tuesday in the East Room of the White House, on the eve of a private meeting. Later, the officials went to the Oval Office, where they held an expanded meeting with the participation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[15925,14610,40476],"class_list":{"0":"post-499232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"tag-donald-trump","8":"tag-gustavo-petro","9":"tag-white-house"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}