Overview
- The White House kept the Oval Office meeting unusually private, releasing only photos as no reporters were invited.
- Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the talks alongside Colombian ministers Pedro Sanchez and Rosa Villavicencio.
- Hours before the meeting, Colombia extradited the drug lord known as Pipe Tulua to the United States on President Gustavo Petro’s orders.
- Bogotá has resumed U.S. deportation flights using Colombian aircraft and agreed to reinstate aerial glyphosate spraying of coca crops.
- Officials emphasized counter-narcotics cooperation after a January thaw in relations following tensions over the U.S. operation in Venezuela, with no immediate details of new agreements disclosed.