Biden will give Colombia special non-Nato ally status

Biden will give Colombia special non-Nato ally status. 

As the United States tries to isolate Russia, President Joe Biden told Colombian President Ivan Duque on Thursday that the country will be given the status of a major non-NATO ally. This will make Colombia a significant country in an unstable region.

In White House talks, Biden and Duque said they would try to sign a migration deal at the Summit of the Americas in June in LA. Colombia is now home to 1.9 million people who came from Venezuela.

If you are a close ally of the United States but not a member of NATO, the United States gives you the title of “major non-NATO ally.” At that time, Argentina became a country. In 2019, Brazil became a country, as well.

When Biden spoke to Duque, he said that “Colombia is the link in the Southern Hemisphere.” The two countries have been friends for 200 years.

Two of the leaders didn’t say what kind of framework they were expecting to put in place to deal with migration. The United States has had a hard time dealing with thousands of migrants who want to come to the U.S. and get asylum.

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After secret talks between U.S. officials and representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, two American prisoners were freed. They met a few days after that meeting. People in Colombia, which has a bad relationship with Venezuela, didn’t like the move at all.

There was no sign of a fight in their public words. Both presidents slammed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Colombian President Juan Manuel Duque said his country was willing to help other countries in the region deal with the huge number of people fleeing “the bloodbath” in Ukraine.

After the meeting, Duque told reporters that “I’m not going to start questioning” U.S. policy, but he didn’t say what that policy was.

“We will keep up with the same foreign policy,” said Duque. “We will call Nicolas Maduro what he is, a criminal who has committed crimes against humanity, and we will keep supporting our Venezuelan brothers in Colombia with fraternity.”

In a joint statement after the meeting, the two leaders said that they both agreed to “support the restoration of democracy” in Venezuela.

The US delegation’s weekend trip to Venezuela and talks with President Nicolas Maduro focused on the fate of the detained Americans and the possibility of easing U.S. oil sanctions on OPEC member Venezuela to fill a supply gap if Vice President Joe Biden banned Russian oil imports on Tuesday, which he did on Monday. This is what happened. More: read more

Vladimir Putin’s best friend in South America is Venezuela. The US is trying to figure out if the country will back away from Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Maduro’s management of Venezuela has led to a humanitarian crisis that has spread to Colombia because of it.

Duque came to Colombia ahead of legislative and presidential primaries on Sunday. Some left-leaning candidates have said they want to change the U.S.-Colombia relationship, which is based on the fight against drug trafficking.

Duque, who will leave office in August, has been under a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to stop growing coca, which is used to make cocaine. U.S. money to fight the drug hasn’t stopped Colombia from making a lot of the drug, even though it was supposed to stop it.

Presidents Biden and Duque made a joint statement saying that the two of them would work together on a more comprehensive approach to fighting drugs. This would include better access to preventative, treatment or recovery services, as well as new efforts to stop money laundering and increase interdiction efforts.

As part of the meeting, Biden also said that he would donate an extra two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Colombia.