USA-Colombia diplomatic tensions –
Trump sanctions Colombia after refusing special flights
Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Colombia, including taxes and restrictions, after Bogota’s refusal to accommodate expelled migrants.
Posted today at 9:00 p.m.
Presidents Donald Trump (left) and Gustavo Petro (right) compete on the management of expelled migrants, causing tensions between the United States and Colombia.
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US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered a series of reprisals, including customs taxes, against Colombia, which has repressed military aircraft carrying migrants in an irregular situation expelled by the United States.
Donald Trump said on his social social network that he had ordered “decisive emergency reprisal measures” in reaction to the decision of the left Colombian President Gustavo Petro to “not let in Colombia land two flights of repatriation of the States -Unis, with a large number of illegal criminals on board ”.
These include 25% of taxes on all Colombian goods entering the United States, which will be brought to 50% in a week, as well as a ban on entry to the United States and a revocation of Visas for Colombian government officials, its allies and supporters, he said.
Donald Trump also evokes “reinforced inspections” of customs and the border police for all Colombian and goods nationals from this country “for reasons of national security” as well as banking and financial sanctions.
-“These measures are only the beginning,” he warns, accusing the Colombian government of shirking its “legal obligations to accept the return of the criminals they forced the United States” to be welcomed.
Dignity and respect
The Colombian President demanded on Sunday from the United States that they treat with “dignity and respect” his expelled nationals, while announcing that he had repressed American military planes by transporting. “We will welcome our nationals in civil aircraft, without treating them as criminals,” he said in the morning on the X network.
The Colombian presidency then announced that she was going to send her plane “to facilitate the return to the dignity of nationals who were to arrive in the country this morning, by expulsion flights”.
It was not immediately possible to determine whether this announcement was previous, posterior or simultaneous to the sanctions ordered by the American president.
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