"It sounds good to my ears," Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One the other day.
The comment was in response to a question about whether the US might intervene in Colombia after the attack on Venezuela - in which leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured on the night of January 3 - and was preceded by hateful remarks describing Petro as “a sick man who likes to make cocaine”.
Earlier this week, the Colombian president received an invitation by phone, and on Friday, Trump confirmed that Petro will visit the White House in February.
"I look forward to meeting with Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, at the White House, the first week of February," the American president wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform, and added that "cocaine and other drugs must be stopped from reaching the United States."
The confirmation of the meeting came shortly after Petro announced in a post on X that he had spoken on the phone with Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez.
“I have invited the current president of Venezuela to work with us in this area,” Petro wrote, calling for a joint effort to defeat the smugglers.
