Trump Calls Colombia's Petro 'Terrific'
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President Donald Trump and Colombia's Gustavo Petro meet Tuesday at the White House after a year of diplomatic turmoil, from deportation standoffs to visa revocations and trade tensions.
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to welcome Colombian President Gustavo Petro to the White House on Tuesday for talks only weeks after threatening military action against the South American country and accusing the leader of pumping cocaine into the United States.
President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s roughly two-hour meeting on Tuesday went off without any suspected major disagreements, weeks after Trump slammed the foreign leader as a “sick man.
The detente comes as the Trump administration asserts a more muscular role across the Western Hemisphere.
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El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump recibirá al presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro en la Casa Blanca el martes para conversaciones, solo