The collage depicts U.S. president Donald Trump and Columbia president Gustavo Petro. © Tasos Katopodis / Omar Havana / Getty Images
U.S. president Donald Trump spoke on the telephone with his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro, whom he had previously accused of drug trafficking and threatened to invade.
Both gentlemen accepted a conciliation speech after the war on words that rekindled after the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores by American commandos during a weekend raid on Caracas.
“It was a large honor to be able to talk to the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro, who called to explain the drug situation and another misunderstandings that have happened to us” – Trump wrote on Wednesday on his fact Social portal.
“I appreciate his telephone and speech and look forward to gathering him in the close future” – wrote Trump.
He added that the parties were working to organize a visit from the left-wing leader of Colombia to the White House.
Petro said at a rally in Bogota that he had spoken to Trump for the first time since his election as president in 2022.
"I have requested that direct communication between abroad ministers and presidents be restored. If there is no dialogue, there will be war” said Petro.
President of Colombia later wrote on X that he and Trump "they disagree on his imagination of the United States' relation with Latin America".
He said he proposed that the United States invest in clean energy projects in the region alternatively of seeking access to oil deposits.
"Using Latin America exclusively for oil would lead to the demolition of global law and yet to barbarity and planet War III" – Petro wrote, adding that his proposal is based on "Peace, life and global democracy".
Trump imposed sanctions on Petro last year and revoked his visa after a Colombian leader denounced it as he described it, ‘barbaric’ US attacks on alleged cartel-owned ships in the Caribbean.
Petro argued that the Pentagon was attacking average fishermen, to which Trump responded, calling Petro "illegal drug leader".
In an extended entry on X at the beginning of this week, Petro wrote that the fight against cartels was his highest precedence and that as president "ordered the largest cocaine seizures in planet history".
He promised to defend his country, saying that Colombian soldiers would "shoot the invaders".
Petro described the American raid on Maduro as "disgusting" violation of Venezuela's sovereignty. The operation was condemned by respective another South American countries, as well as Russia and China.
Maduro and Flores were court-martialed in fresh York on Monday, where they failed to plead guilty to drug trafficking and weapon possession charges.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/630716-trump-petro-phone-call/
