Drug War & Narco-Terror Policy

President Trump will host Colombia’s Gustavo Petro at the White House on Tuesday for high-stakes talks expected to focus on drug trafficking, and Petro will hold a news conference at the Colombian Embassy at 3:30 p.m. EST; U.S. officials formally waived sanctions on Petro, his wife, his son and Colombia’s interior minister to allow the visit. Trump said Petro became “very nice” and “changed his attitude” toward the U.S. after the raid capturing Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, and U.S. lethal maritime strikes tied to cocaine interdiction have killed at least 126 people in 36 known attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.