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President Santos recalled the nation's peace negotiator from Ecuador and told the military to "act with force and respond to this ELN aggression."

Joseph Macmanus will take over during one of the most tense periods in modern U.S./Colombia relations.

While Trump reaffirmed U.S. support for Colombia, he failed to even mention the nation's peace process in his opening remarks and ramped up rhetoric for the war on drugs.

Colombia's peace process and the crisis in Venezuela will be on the agenda for President Santos' first visit with President Trump.

While the $450 million USD pledged by Obama has been approved, doubt remains as to whether the same level of assistance will keep arriving over the long term.

The biggest risk for the economy is that Santos has now lost too much political capital to get tax reform passed this year.

Santos: "I have come to the United Nations to announce — with my full voice and heart — that the war in Colombia is over."