G20/SOUTH AMERICA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is scrapping a planned post-election trip to Colombia — the second time he has canceled plans to visit the South American country. The president was slated to visit Colombia on Dec. 2 and 3 on a post-election travel blitz that will take him on separate trips to Paris and to Argentina, which is hosting the G-20 conference. But White House travel aides sent word in an internal email Friday [11-2-18] that the president’s ‘planned travel to Bogota, Colombia 2-3 December has been canceled.’ The same officials said in the note that they were uncertain how the cancellation would affect Trump’s travel plans to Buenos Aires for the G-20 conference, which is scheduled for the weekend prior to his intended Colombia trip. In a statement, the White House simply said that Trump’s schedule ‘will not allow him to travel to Colombia,’ but emphasized that ‘Colombia is one of our closest partners in Latin America.'”
–Eliana Johnson, “Trump cancels Colombia trip,” Politico, November 2, 2018 6:38 pm