Gustavo Petro postpones visit to Panama

The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, postponed without a date the official visit to Panama, which he had announced and which the elected president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, confirmed this Wednesday.  During the visit, it was planned that both leaders would talk about “all topics”, including the growing migration through the Darién jungle.

The visit of the Colombian president was postponed “for reasons of government agenda,” according to sources from the Presidency, who did not specify anything about said agenda.  Petro announced on June 1 that this week he would visit the Panamanian province of Bocas del Toro to ask the Government of Panama to be able to “dig up” the bodies of Colombians who died at the end of the 19th century and “recover” them as part of Colombian history. 

It was going to be Petro’s first meeting with the president-elect, who this Wednesday assured that he would meet him “on Sunday, possibly.”  The initial idea was for Petro to travel before Sunday to go to Bocas del Toro, but he would do so alone and not with Mulino, who stated that he intends to “have a good relationship” with his southern neighbor because they share “a complicated border,” which was going to be one of the points to be discussed at the meeting.