President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to meet Donald Trump after calling for Colombians to take to the streets in a ‘day of national mobilisation’ against the US president’s military threats.
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Anger mounted in Colombia after the US intervention in Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro last week. On Sunday, when asked if there would be a US operation in Colombia, Trump replied: ‘Sounds good to me. You know why? Because they kill a lot of people.’
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