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An emerging diplomatic status about exile flights on social media on Sunday, which threatens close ties between the United States and Colombia, and exposes many in Latin America about the second Trump presidency. Has been done
Angry to how the exile on military flights is being returned with his own hands, Colombian President Gostao Petro surpassed two flights that were already in the air and heading to the South American nation, which led to the Trump administration. Caught by surprise.
In several posts on X, it announced that it was preventing US military deportation flights. Petro later directed a post in the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, warning, “I will never allow Colombian residents to handle flights into flights. Marco, if the Foreign Ministry officials said If allowed, it will never be on my guidance.
The sudden split between the United States and Colombia, which has long been a major recipient of US military aid and has accepted exile flights so far, immediately a region responding to a new US president. There was a struggle for giving.
Trump has vowed to deport many immigrants back to Latin American countries, launch border attacks on Mexican drug cartels, increase economic sanctions on left -wing governments in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and control the Panama Canal. Is
Some regional leaders were in a hurry to please Colombia. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Kenil wrote on X, “The Colombian rights are defended by President Gostau Petro in his response to his defense and their discrimination and blackmail with whom he has his own people and his people. We intend to put pressure on the United States. ”
For Columbia – a country that has received billions of dollars from the United States to fight drug trafficking and militant groups over the years – the United States sent a powerful signal to the half -crap to openly refuse the United States Would have given. And it can complicate the Trump administration’s efforts to force other countries to fall behind their campaign to accept exiles, which are deeply unpopular in the region. By successfully pushing back, Petro opened the door to do the same for other regional leaders.
Already, after dealing with corruption scams and destroying violence, two Colombian militant groups fight each other and the government, Petro may have thought that the choice of a public war with the Trump administration will provide a welcome disturbance.
But Colombia’s first left -wing president, made of the former guerrilla, apparently misunderstood the extent to which the new US administration would respond.
Petro did not follow Mexican President Claudia Shenbam’s announcement that “always must keep a cool head” while dealing with Trump’s threats.
Instead, Petro tried to humiliate with Trump, writing a long letters on the US president that he should consider Colombian people “inferior” and that “I do not agree with white slaves.”
Experts say the new Republican administration has little patience for petro.
“Donald Trump and his surrounding people, including Rubio, do not like Gustav Petro,” said Adam Asxin, director of defense monitoring of the Washington Office in Latin America’s think tank. “So he was like a perfect foil, someone could use them to create an example for every other country in the region that they would like to threaten if they came to exile.”
“You can’t go out and publicly refuse us like this,” a Trump administration official told CNN on Sunday. “We are going to ensure that the world knows that they can’t be serious and fraudulent.”
The United States is Colombia’s largest trading partner. When the Trump administration withdrew with 25 % rates among other things, Petro withdraws at the end of the day-and hopes he will become a new standard beer for Trump Trump, Latin American leftist Suddenly it became a vapor.
The threat of Washington’s economic tight for tet and canceled visa services gave birth not only to Colombian but also to other countries in the region, who even saw more clearly after Sunday how to turn the central arm in Trump’s foreign policy. Will be
There was a lot of surprise all over the region that the petro – – after the diplomatic event was launched – was added so quickly. Nevertheless, it is likely that a summit of leaders in the left -wing regional silicing body on Thursday could unite the United Trump Block to withdraw against exiles.
The dust between Colombia and the United States once again revealed that due to gross proximity, Latin America would potentially tolerate Trump’s policies and the wrath of US officials when regional leaders try to speak.
However, as a result of the incident, the US pressure campaign has achieved the desired result for the Trump administration-at least for the moment.
On Monday, Columbia announced that it was sending its military aircraft to take the refugees, which was thought to have arrived a day earlier.
