'Appreciate his call and tone': Colombia President 'explains' to Trump drug 'situation'

US President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro had their archetypal telephone telephone aft caller trading of harsh words. The 35-minute speech happened conscionable days aft Trump accused Petro of cause trafficking and made threats astir imaginable US subject enactment successful Latin America, similar the 1 successful Venezuela.

Both leaders agreed to conscionable successful idiosyncratic soon.Trump shared quality of the telephone connected his societal media level Truth Social, saying, "It was a Great Honor to talk with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called to explicate the concern of drugs and different disagreements that we person had." He added that helium looked guardant to gathering Petro soon.

"I appreciated his telephone and tone, and look guardant to gathering him successful the adjacent future. Arrangements are being made betwixt Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Foreign Minister of Colombia. The gathering volition instrumentality spot successful the White House successful Washington, DC," helium added.

The telephone came astatine a tense time. Trump had precocious called Petro a "sick antheral who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States," and adjacent suggested helium supported subject enactment against Colombia erstwhile asked by a quality reporter.The concern got much superior erstwhile Petro responded to US strikes connected Venezuela. He warned astir defending Colombia's sovereignty, saying "If you weaponry peasants, thousands of guerrillas volition instrumentality to the mountains."

He besides cautioned that arresting him would "unleash the fashionable jaguar."Taking protective measures, Petro sent 30,000 Colombian soldiers to defender the borderline with Venezuela connected Sunday.Trump's pugnacious speech wasn't conscionable aimed astatine Colombia. He besides threatened to nonstop US subject forces aft cause cartel leaders successful Mexico and suggested Cuba's authorities mightiness autumn without Venezuela's support.The Colombian authorities described the telephone betwixt the 2 leaders arsenic "good and positive," showing signs of imaginable betterment successful the strained narration betwixt the 2 countries.