{"id":68910,"date":"2025-07-04T01:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=68910"},"modified":"2025-07-04T01:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:38:56","slug":"us-colombia-recall-their-ambassadors-in-diplomatic-tussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=68910","title":{"rendered":"US, Colombia recall their ambassadors in diplomatic tussle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States has recalled its top diplomat from the U.S. embassy in Bogota over statements it said were made at high levels of the Colombian government, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, prompting the South American country to also recall its ambassador to the U.S.<\/p>\n

President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s administration recalled Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires ad interim John McNamara \u201cfor urgent consultations following baseless and reprehensible statements from the highest levels of the Government of Colombia,\u201d State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to the recall of the Charg\u00e9, the United States is pursuing other measures to make clear our deep concern over the current state of our bilateral relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The State Department did not specify which comments it took issue with or what other measures were being pursued by Washington.<\/p>\n

After Washington\u2019s announcement, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he was recalling Colombia\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Garcia-Pena.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy post on X, Petro said the diplomat should come back to discuss the two countries\u2019 bilateral agenda, listing priorities such as climate cooperation, anti-narcotics efforts and migration policy.<\/p>\n

Colombia\u2019s foreign ministry said Minister Laura Sarabia,\u00a0who announced her resignation on Thursday<\/a>, is \u201cin communication with the United States while she is in office until they designate a new foreign minister who will be in charge of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a rebuke to Colombia\u2019s government last month after Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential contender and a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Center party,\u00a0was shot in Bogota<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rubio said the shooting of Uribe was \u201cthe result of the violent leftist rhetoric coming from the highest levels of the Colombian government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uribe has been undergoing repeated serious surgeries since the shooting, which left him in critical condition.<\/p>\n

In January,\u00a0Trump and Petro clashed<\/a>\u00a0over Colombia\u2019s refusal to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants, prompting Trump to threaten tariffs and sanctions. But the two countries managed to pull back from the brink of a trade war and overcome the impasse.<\/p>\n

Petro, at the time, had condemned the military deportation flights and said he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the opposite of the Nazis,\u201d he wrote in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n

Colombia is the third-largest U.S. trading partner in Latin America.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is Colombia\u2019s largest trading partner, largely due to a 2006 free trade agreement that generated $33.8 billion in two-way trade in 2023 and a $1.6 billion U.S. trade surplus, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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