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After forcing Colombia to back down, White House claims America is respected again

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Among other imports, America gets ~30% of its coffee from Colombia.

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I think the greatest example of leftist brainrot is the president of my country, Gustavo Petro, a left-wing politician and former M-19 guerrilla member, constantly talking about the Gaza conflict in his twitter account, denouncing the violence and condemning Israel, all the while the country he’s supposedly governing falls into mass violence, thanks to his absolutely abhorrent security policies that basically account to “intelligence gathering is for right-wing fascists, the army will react to the violence, not act to stop it”.

For example, last night a whole family, including a toddler, was massacred in the town of Tibu, close to my birthplace of Ocaña, yet all her cares about is the cease fire in Gaza, and how that’s a window for “global peace”.

My fellow countrymen who voted for that piece of shit must be really enjoying the consequences of their actions.

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A Tale of Two Ws, and neither are America's.

Womp womp.

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"After its first-ever left-wing presidential administration took charge of negotiating permanent peace with the socialist FARC rebels, Colombia’s forests are feeling the effects with a 26% reduction in deforestation in the conflict areas.

These dense, biodiverse rainforests that are a part of the Amazon in places, and independent of it in others, have been one of the many victims of the country’s civil war.

However, President Gustavo Petro is conducting peace negotiations that put the environment first with around 20 splinter factions of the FARC guerillas, who have responded positively.

De-facto leadership in the conflict areas in the forested state of Gauviare has instituted its own deforestation moratorium, and an estimated 50,000 hectares of rainforest have been saved as a result.

“This is really dramatic,” conservationist Rodrigo Botero told The Guardian. “It’s the highest reduction in deforestation and forest fires that there has been in two decades.”

The Guardian recently covered these peace negotiations alongside a delegation from Norway which included that country’s environment minister, Espen Barth Eide.

“What I’m hearing, seeing, and feeling in these meetings is that there is an enhanced understanding that you cannot build a new Colombia on the basis of the further deterioration of nature, so you have to find an economic, social, political, inclusive process that is more respectful towards nature than before,” Barth told the English paper.

Often flying under the radar when compared to its neighbor Brazil, Colombia is the second-most biodiverse country on Earth, and the most biodiverse in terms of bird life.

It’s the 25th-highest country in the world for Forest Integrity Index score (8.26) and boasts twice as many square miles of highly-intact forest than of poorly-intact forest, almost all of which resides in the conflicted states of Amazonia, Caquetá, and Putumayo.

If the Petro government can really put the brakes on the conversion of forests into pastureland for cattle, it would be helping to save one of the most valuable tropical forest ecosystems on Earth."

-via Good News Network, 7/14/23

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Because I have seen people spreading misinformation about the Colombia-United States situation. The issue from Colombia's part was never about not wanting to accept repatriated citizens. The issue was that they would be received if they were returned with dignified and fair treatment, not as criminals.

That was clear from the first moment.

A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves.

That's why I turned back the US military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants.

I cannot allow migrants to remain in a country that does not want them; but if that country sends them back, it must be with dignity and respect for them and for our country. We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals. Colombia is respected.

The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals.

I deny the entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants into our territory.

The United States must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them.

I will never allow Colombians to be brought in handcuffs on flights. Marco, if officials from the Foreign Ministry allowed that, it would never have been under my direction.

I am a man of freedom, not of chains

The agreement that was reached was to bring the immigrants under fair conditions and with dignity, which was Petro's demand.

The official statement by the chancellery was:

The Government of Colombia reports that we have overcome the impasse with the Government of the United States.

In this context, Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and Ambassador Daniel García-Peña will travel to Washington, D.C., in the next few hours to hold high-level meetings to follow up on the agreements, the result of the joint work and exchange of diplomatic notes that took place today between the two governments.

We will continue to welcome Colombians who return as deportees, guaranteeing them decent conditions as citizens with rights.

The Colombian government, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro, has the presidential plane ready to facilitate the return of the compatriots who were to arrive in the country today in the morning on deportation flights.

Colombia confirms that diplomatic channels of dialogue will be maintained to guarantee the rights, national interest and dignity of our citizens.

That was the agreement that was reached. The sanctions imposed by both countries would be discarded, Colombia would receive the repatriated, but ONLY if they were guaranteed decent treatment upon their return to the country.

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And the trade wars have begun (source: Reuters)

Is everyone around the world ready for even higher prices after the inflationary post-COVID period?

The Colombian president is not afraid to bite back

Meanwhile, other Latin American countries are also protesting the treatment of their citizens

As a side note, given the price hikes in our near future, I can’t help but wonder if businesses encouraged Trump to start a trade war so they could raise their prices under the guise of tariffs, only to line their pockets and report new record profits again

I admit this idea is unlikely, but I can see US businesses taking advantage of this, considering how prices went up during COVID

Ugh

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Alex Samuels at Daily Kos:

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will, at least for now, hold off on his egregious threat to impose tariffs on Colombia after the nation agreed to accept deported migrants, who were being returned to the country by U.S. military planes. Notably, this move represented a turn from Trump’s plan just hours prior. Earlier on Sunday, he vowed to impose steep tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after it turned away two deportation flights.  At one point, it looked like we were headed toward a trade war. That was narrowly averted, though, after Colombian President Gustavo Petro agreed to accept the deportees. Trump, of course, claimed victory and said that the South American nation had caved to his authoritarian demands.  The clash reflects how the Trump administration is ready to make examples of foreign countries that attempt to impede on his plans, specifically those that will likely target immigrants seeking asylum or shelter in the United States.  So how did we get here—and is a trade war looming? Trump hasn’t been shy about his intent to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, announcing a flurry of executive actions targeting immigrants on Day One of his second term. But foreign nations aren’t necessarily on board with Trump’s hardline plans. On Sunday, Petro refused to let two U.S. military aircrafts, which were carrying deported Colombian immigrants, land on Colombian soil, as he demanded the deportees to be treated humanely instead of as political props.

“A migrant is not a criminal and should be treated with the dignity a human being deserves,” Petro posted on social media. “We will receive our nationals in civilian airplanes, without treating them as criminals. Colombia must be respected.” In a separate post, Petro shared a video of immigrants, who were reportedly sent back to Brazil, walking on an airplane tarmac with restraints around their hands and feet. It’s important to note that Petro didn’t refuse to take back the Colombian immigrants. According to data from Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data, Colombia accepted 475 deportation flights between 2020 and 2024, making it the fifth country to accept the most deportation flights behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and El Salvador.  Petro’s issue with accepting deportation flights this go-around was how these immigrants were brought back. Petro wanted them to be returned via presidential plane or nonmilitary flight, arguing that it would be more dignified than how Trump and his cronies preferred to operate.

[...] Trump also said that he would impose “visa sanctions” and a “travel ban and immediate visa revocations” on Colombian government officials and their allies while enforcing even stricter border inspections of all Colombian nationals and cargo. In response, Petro posted a series of defiant messages, in which he promised a retaliatory 25% tariff on all U.S. goods.  “Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world,” he wrote. The two sides have reached—at least for now—what reads like a shaky agreement. 

Late Sunday, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said the two nations have “overcome the impasse.” As a result, Colombia would accept its citizens who are deported from the United States via military planes. But in the future, Murillo noted that Colombia’s presidential aircraft would be available to facilitate the return of immigrants. Of course, the Trump administration put its own spin on the news. In a statement on Sunday, the White House said that, since Petro had agreed to all of Trump’s terms, the tariffs and sanctions Trump once threatened would be “held in reserve.” The visa sanctions, however, would remain in effect until the first planeload of deportees arrive in Colombia.

Trump bullied Colombia into accepting immigrant deportation flights after initially refusing them.

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Colombia, Bolivia back Brazil’s Lula in Israel row over Gaza war comments

South American allies voice ‘solidarity’ with Brazil after Israel lambasts Lula for comparing war on Gaza with Holocaust.

Colombia and Bolivia are backing Brazil as its diplomatic row with Israel escalated after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, comparing its actions with the Holocaust.

Gustavo Petro and Luis Arce, the presidents of Colombia and Bolivia respectively, both expressed “solidarity” with Lula on Tuesday, after he was slammed by Israel for calling its war on Gaza a “genocide” against Palestinians and compared it with Adolf Hitler’s campaign to exterminate the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

“In Gaza there is a genocide and thousands of children, women and elderly civilians are cowardly murdered,” Petro said on X. “Lula has only spoken the truth and the truth is defended or barbarism will annihilate us. The entire region must unite to immediately end the violence in Palestine.”

Arce also took to social media to link arms with Lula. “History will not forgive those who are indifferent to this barbarity,” he wrote. The Brazilian president, he said, had told the truth about the genocide being committed against the “brave Palestinian people”.

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Trump claimed victory in tariff and migration standoff with Colombia

Hours after threatening punitive tariffs, the White House said Colombia agreed to accept deported migrants, according to Politico.

US President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Sunday that the Colombian government had agreed to take steps to remove migrants from the country. They would be returned on military aircraft “without limitation or delay,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again. President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.

The mutual exchange of threats on social media underscored Trump’s efforts to keep his migration pledges. The White House said the emergency tariffs and sanctions Trump threatened earlier in the day were fully developed and would be in place – but not signed – unless Colombia complied with the agreement.

Visa sanctions imposed by the State Department, as well as increased inspections by Customs and Border Protection, would remain in place until the first plane carrying Colombian migrants returned.

The dispute broke out after Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused two US military planes full of detained Colombian migrants. He called for a “dignified return” of the deportees, not “handcuffed and on military craft.”

In response, Trump threatened an emergency 25% tariff on all goods imported from Colombia, as well as visa restrictions, a travel ban, increased border checks and financial penalties.

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