<h1>Trump and Petro meet at White House to seek pragmatic cooperation on curbing drug trafficking and easing bilateral tensions.</h1> The White House meeting seeks to move bilateral relations from a period of sanctions, threatened tariffs and halted aid toward pragmatic cooperation on curbing drug trafficking. Core issues are divergent anti-drug strategies-U.S. eradication and supply-side control versus Colombia's interdiction and demand-reduction model-and the operational aim of coordinating actions against trafficking networks and armed groups that profit from the cocaine trade, with resumed repatriation flights evidencing a thaw enabling security collaboration.