Bogotá, Colombia - Colombia's Foreign Minister Omar Bula apologized to Democrats in the US for his multiple "disrespectful" social media posts about Kamala Harris and other party leaders before entering government.

The right-wing Bula made numerous insulting remarks about 2024 presidential candidate Harris, as well as ex-presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, before becoming a minister in August.

His remarks also predated the Democrats' resounding victory in the midterm elections.

"I want to offer my sincere apologies for comments I made in past social media posts concerning leaders of the Democratic Party," Bula wrote on X late on Wednesday.

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"The language I used was inappropriate and disrespectful," he said, adding that his views had since "evolved."

"Colombia considers a strong and constructive relationship with both the Democratic and Republican parties essential to its partnership with the United States," he said.

In one X post in November 2025, he said that Harris, had she defeated Donald Trump in 2024, "would already be getting high" with current President Abelardo de la Espriella's left-wing predecessor Gustavo Petro.

In February 2025, also on X, he accused Obama of being "the Santos of the US" – a reference to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, who negotiated a peace deal with the Marxist guerrilla group FARC that was widely rejected by the right.

"Both laid the groundwork for the catastrophe their countries have experienced in recent years," he wrote.