Foreign minister rejects visa in solidarity with sanctioned president.

Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio renounced her U.S. visa to protest the State Department’s revocation of President Gustavo Petro’s travel permit, with Finance Minister Germán Ávila following suit hours later. The State Department canceled Petro’s visa after he participated in a New York protest against the Gaza war, where he called on U.S. soldiers to disobey Trump’s orders. Immigration attorneys say renouncing non-immigrant visas is extremely rare and that officials are making symbolic gestures to show solidarity, as tensions between the two nations escalate over drug policy and foreign affairs disputes.

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