Overview
- The closed-door Oval Office meeting lasted about two hours with no formal readout, and both leaders characterized it as positive, with Trump calling it "very good."
- Colombia resumed accepting U.S. deportation flights last week and on Tuesday restarted extraditions by sending a wanted drug suspect to the United States.
- Treasury sanctions and U.S. visa restrictions on Gustavo Petro were temporarily waived to allow his travel to Washington after a year of punitive measures.
- U.S. officials said discussions focused on regional security and drug interdiction, and Petro later said Trump offered to mediate a trade dispute with Ecuador.
- The rapprochement remains fragile as disputes over U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats and the operation that captured Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro continue to raise sovereignty concerns.