{"id":14791,"date":"2026-04-27T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/colombias-petro-becomes-first-head-of-state-to-visit-venezuela-since-maduros-ouster\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:24:06","slug":"colombias-petro-becomes-first-head-of-state-to-visit-venezuela-since-maduros-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/colombias-petro-becomes-first-head-of-state-to-visit-venezuela-since-maduros-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia\u2019s Petro becomes first head of state to visit Venezuela since Maduro\u2019s ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2013 <\/strong>Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Caracas today to meet with his counterpart in Venezuela, Interim President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p>The visit makes Petro the first world leader to visit the South American nation since the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/latinamericareports.com\/maduro-captured-after-u-s-launches-airstrikes-on-caracas\/13217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captured<\/a> longtime strongman Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a military operation on January 3.<\/p>\n<p>Petro and Rodr\u00edguez are expected to discuss bilateral issues including energy and security cooperation on their more than 1,300 mile shared border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian president landed in Caracas on Friday afternoon with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/latinamericareports.com\/colombias-petro-becomes-first-head-of-state-to-visit-venezuela-since-maduros-ouster\/14315\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2013 Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Caracas today to meet with his counterpart in Venezuela, Interim President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3513,3461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerique-du-sud","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}