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 two leaders have a contentious relationship, with their combative personalities and history of publicly sparring over threats of military action last year, as the U.S. routinely conducted 36 strikes against suspected drug cartel boats in the Caribbean, killing at least 126 people.
Petro also needed a special visa to visit the U.S. after it was revoked due to calling on American soldiers to disobey Trump during a speech to a pro-Palestinian crowd.
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Petro is an anti-imperialist Leftist in contrast to the conservative Trump. But on Tuesday, both leaders had positive words after their closed-door
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