{"id":660664,"date":"2013-05-28T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=b331b639a9d631f23a7b86fde32217c1"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:45:05","slug":"vice-president-biden-travels-to-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660664","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Biden Travels to Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Marking his fourth visit to the region since taking office, Vice President Biden left D.C. on Sunday for a trip to Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil. Following President Obama&rsquo;s recent visit to Mexico and Costa Rica, the trip is the latest demonstration of the United States&rsquo; commitment to reinforcing partnerships in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President began his trip in Bogota, where he held a bilateral meeting<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-%20office\/2013\/05\/27\/remarks-press-vice-president-biden-and-colombian-president-santos-bogota\">&nbsp;with President Juan Miguel Santos of Colombia<\/a>, and highlighted the country&rsquo;s remarkable progress on security issues as well as the importance of our economic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Since our free trade agreement went into effect a little over one year ago, &quot;United States exports to Columbia are up 20 percent,&rdquo; the Vice President said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/vice-president-biden-travels-colombia\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking his fourth visit to the region since taking office, Vice President Biden left D.C. on Sunday for a trip to Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil. Following President Obama&rsquo;s recent visit to Mexico and Costa Rica, the trip is the latest demonstration of the United States&rsquo; commitment to reinforcing partnerships in the Americas. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}