US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered a series of reprisals, including customs tariffs against Colombia, which has repressed military aircraft carrying migrants in an irregular situation expelled by the United States.
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Donald Trump said on his social network Truth that he had ordered, in response to the decision of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, “decisive emergency reprisal measures” “.
These include 25% of tariffs all Colombian goods entering the United States, which will be brought to 50% in a week, as well as a travel ban against Colombian government officials, he said .
-The Colombian government for its part announced on Sunday that it would send its presidential plane to the United States to transport “dignity” immigrants in an irregular situation that the Trump administration wanted to expel earlier in military aircraft and from which Bogota refused the ‘entrance.
“The government of Colombia, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro, made the presidential plane available to facilitate the return to the dignity of nationals who were to arrive in the country this morning, by expulsion flights,” said The presidency in a press release sent to the press.
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