The unusual meeting with former presidents Alvaro Uribe and Andres Pastrana has led to speculation in Colombia that the pair was enlisting Trump's support against a historic peace accord brokered by Santos with left-wing guerrillas. The meeting was widely reported in the Colombian news media but never announced by the White House. In Bogota, the Colombian capital, the Santos government was said to be livid at news of the Mar-a-Lago session. Uribe and Pastrana are vehemently opposed to the hard-fought peace accord that ended more than half a century of civil war. Reports in Colombia said the meeting was brokered by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); Rubio's office would neither confirm nor deny that.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 20, 2017 20:03 UTC