Petro, for his part, was highly critical of Trump’s influence on the region, as well as his administration’s seizure of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to stand trial on drug charges in the US, clearing the way for US firms to tap Venezuela’s oil reserves.
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