It was the meeting between Iván Duque and the Vice President of the United States.

President-elect and Mike Pence discussed, primarily, the situation in Venezuela

Only two weeks after speaking on the phone after the results of the presidential elections, Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States (United States), and Iván Duque held a meeting face to face at the White House in Washington

At the meeting, politicians mainly discussed the two issues that were the thematic axes of the elected president's visit to the US capital: politics of drugs and the crisis in Venezuela. On the latter, the uribista revealed that both shared " the concern for this dictatorship and the desire to denounce its abuses."

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"We must adopt clear attitudes. I want Colombia to withdraw from Unasur because we can not continue to be in an organization that has been consueta of this dictatorship.We must also continue to mark an agenda of the defense of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and we are agree with the US government, "he added, stating that neither government mentioned the possibility of a military intervention according to rumor

Given the Increase in coca cultivation in Colombia, which reached 209,000 hectares in 2017, according to the latest report of the State Department, Duque said it would work "for a substantial reduction and for r confront all the illegal armed groups that are being fed by this enterprise. "

As he mentioned on Thursday, invited Trump and Pence to accompany him in his possession. 7 August next.

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On Wednesday, a week of the diplomatic agenda was celebrated Washington of the old Senator. There, he met various political figures. Last week, for example, he held meetings with Representative Jim Carroll, Director of Bureau of National Drug Control Policy, John Bolton, National Security Advisor to the Director General Donald Trump and Luis Almagro, Secretary of the Organization of American States (19459011) as well as with Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the Democratic Representative Rubén Gallego and the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs. State Mike Pompeo.

Duque recently stated that in addition to strengthening the relationship with the American nation through cooperation and support in these two issues, his mandate will focus on "work to strengthen the commercial links and the 39, investment, which we hope to continue to increase by the United States in Colombia. "

Now the elected president will travel to Madrid, where he will participate in the New Economics Forum.