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Related: About this forumTrump ignores Colombias peace process, talks about Venezuela instead
written by Adriaan Alsema May 18, 2017
US President Donald Trump failed to endorse, or even mention Colombias peace process in his speech following his first meeting with his counterpart Juan Manuel Santos in what seemed a major breach in a decades-long bilateral alliance.
The Colombian presidents main priorities in the meeting were to get an explicit endorsement of the South American countrys peace process from Trump in order to boost public support, as well as to effect a change in the United States drug policy. Trump ignored both issues.
Instead, the US President talked about Venezuela, Colombias neighbor, central American criminal groups, and a wall he has promised to build along the US-Mexican border.
Ignoring the armed conflict that has left at least 265,000 Colombians dead and 7 million displaced, Trump went as far as falsely claiming that violence seen in Venezuela had not been seen in the hemisphere in decades.
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https://colombiareports.com/colombia-santos-donald-trump/
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Trump ignores Colombias peace process, talks about Venezuela instead (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
May 2017
OP
enough
(13,237 posts)1. When I saw that I figured he didn't know what country
the head of state he was meeting with came from.
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)2. He probably still doesn't know. Out of all the people in the country, he's the President? WTF. n/t
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)3. The 800lb Gorilla in the room...
... is Venezuela. The chaos next door is bleeding over to Colombia, and Colombia is struggling to cope.
My understanding is that Trump did (eventually?) address the Colombian peace process. And while Colombians appreciate any acknowledgement of this process, Colombia is being inundated with ordinary Venezuelan's seeking relief from Maduro's train wreck.