Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ordered the suspension of intelligence sharing with US security agencies this week until military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific stop. Petro’s move appeared to ratchet up tensions with the US government of President Donald Trump further. Petro made the announcement after the Colombian current affairs magazine Cambio had splashed a picture of him in an orange prison jumpsuit next to Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro on its front cover, which was visible in a dossier carried by the US deputy chief of staff, James Blair, at a recent White House meeting. The interior minister, Armando Benedetti, later seemed to backtrack, insisting that bilateral cooperation against organised crime and drug trafficking would continue, but tensions remain heightened.
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