The meeting between the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, was private and no details of the issues they discussed were known, the AFP agency reported.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, met this Friday, October 21, in Bogotá with the director of the CIA, William Joseph Burns, in a closed-door meeting between former “enemies,” according to the president.
“A few decades ago we might be enemies, today I give him a hammock and a bag of panela (sweetener extracted from the cane), “Petro wrote on his Twitter account, in a message that was accompanied by a photograph in which both shake hands.
The meeting between the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Colombian president was private and no details of the issues they discussed were known, nor was there any presence of the national or international press, the agency reported. AFP.
Petro militated in the M-19, a nationalist guerrilla that signed the peace in 1990before going into exile for a time in Europe and returning to his country to become a legislator, mayor of Bogotá (2012-2015) and then take office as the first leftist president in the country’s history on August 7.
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Critical of some of the policies of the United States, such as its “failed” war on drugs, in his first months in office the president has met with the highest echelons of American power as the head of diplomacy, Antony Blinken.
The president has denounced the repressive policy against drugs and encouraged Washington to define a new strategy to prevent consumption in developed economies, and put an end to the persecution of coca growers in the Colombian jungles.
Both governments have agreed to give a more comprehensive treatment to the problem of drug trafficking, after four decades of unsuccessful struggle in which Colombia remains the world’s largest producer of cocaine and the United States the main consumer. the news agency recalled.
A few decades ago maybe we would be enemies, today I give him a hammock and a bag of panela.
My interview with William Burns, Director General of the CIA. pic.twitter.com/EnW5JA3xmh
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 21, 2022
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