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Colombia, Venezuela bilateral meeting called off shortly after Petro-Trump call
The cancellation cited force majeure hours after a call between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and U.S. President Donald Trump, with no official reason given, officials said.
- On March 12, 2026, a summit scheduled in Cúcuta between Delcy Rodríguez and President Gustavo Petro was canceled hours before Rodríguez was due to arrive.
- Governments said the cancellation was due to 'force majeure', and it was not immediately clear why the trip was scrapped; the announcement followed a call where U.S. President Donald Trump wished Petro success.
- An AFP reporter saw the event stage being dismantled at the Atanasio Girardot International Bridge, illustrating the abrupt cancellation of talks expected to focus on drug trafficking and border security.
- Colombia and Venezuela said they will work to reschedule the meeting, but the cancellation interrupts planned cooperation on the ELN and border economic talks as Petro maintained his invitation to Rodríguez.
- In recent months, the Cúcuta border region has become more violent with rival guerrilla groups fighting over trafficking routes, amid the absence of a scheduled meeting between authorities, attributed to 'force majeure'.
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Colombia and Venezuela shifted their planned bilateral contact to the ministerial level on Friday after a presidential meeting announced for the border was abruptly canceled under the formula of “force majeure.” Instead of the face-to-face encounter scheduled between Gustavo Petro and Delcy Rodríguez at the Atanasio Girardot bridge, Bogotá sent a delegation to Caracas led by Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio and including the ministers of defen
Despite the reprogramming, President Gustavo Petro ratified the invitation to his counterpart Delcy Rodríguez to make the appointment in the near future, reaffirming the commitment to advance the binational cooperation agenda.
It was the first foreign trip of the interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez. It was abruptly cancelled on Thursday, only a few hours before his planned arrival in a border town in Colombia.
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