{"id":17416,"date":"2026-01-08T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-speaks-with-colombias-petro-days-after-venezuela-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:22:21","slug":"trump-speaks-with-colombias-petro-days-after-venezuela-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-speaks-with-colombias-petro-days-after-venezuela-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump speaks with Colombia&#8217;s Petro days after Venezuela strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday spoke on the phone with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, days after issuing threats toward the South American country in the wake of U.S. strikes on Venezuela that ended with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol&aacute;s Maduro. A White House official confirmed the call with White House correspondent Kellie Meyer at NewsNation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5677931-trump-colombian-president-phone-call\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday spoke on the phone with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, days after issuing threats toward the South American country in the wake of U.S. strikes on Venezuela that ended with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol&aacute;s Maduro. A White House official confirmed the call with White House correspondent Kellie Meyer at NewsNation&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}