Colombia’s foreign minister renounced her U.S. visa on Sept. 29 to protest a decision by the U.S. government to revoke the visa of the country’s president after he called on U.S. soldiers to disobey orders during his visit to New York.
Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio said in a post on X that she had “decided to renounce the U.S. visa.”
“It is an act of dignity in the face of the unacceptable decision to revoke the visa from the President of Colombia. Our sovereignty does not kneel. Colombia demands respect,” Villavicencio wrote.
A statement from the Colombian foreign ministry—published shortly thereafter on X—accused the United States of “violating international diplomatic norms,” adding that it was not interested in “diplomatic visas that restrict opinions or restrictions on sovereignty.”…