President Trump announced Friday he will meet with Colombian President Gustavo Petro next month in Washington.
“I look forward to having a meeting with Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, in the White House, during the first week of February,” Trump wrote in a TruthSocial post.
“I am sure it will work out very well for Colombia, and the U.S.A., but, cocaine and other drugs must be STOPPED from coming into the United States,” he continued.
Earlier this week, Trump and Petro spoke over the phone, which he called “a great honor.”
“I appreciated his call and tone, and look forward to meeting him in the near future. Arrangements are being made between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Foreign Minister of Colombia,” the president wrote in a TruthSocial post.
Trump and Petro exchanged barbs following the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro.
The U.S. president had previously accused his Colombian counterpart of “making cocaine and selling it to the United States. When asked Sunday about a potential military operation in Colombia, Trump said “sounds good to me.”
Petro called on Colombians to defend “national sovereignty” and warned against U.S. intervention after the Venezuela strike.
“If you bomb peasants, thousands of guerrillas will return to the mountains,” Petro said, according to The City Paper Bogotá. “And if you arrest the president whom a good part of my people want and respect, you will unleash the popular jaguar.”