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Colombia made a face at quick speed to accepting deporting flights in which President Donald Trump It was a victory for his “f—downtown and finding” governing style.
One of the first diplomatic espots in the new administration, the Acrobatics of Colombia showed a scope of relations with which until recently he was one of the strongest allies in the United States in Latin America.
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After President Gustavo Petro rejecting two flights full of Colombian migrants Deported from the United States, Trump immediately wrote in a real social place that imposed 25% of rates on all merchandise in Colombia, a ban on travel to Colombian government officials and other heavy financial sanctions. He said the rates would reach up to 50% next week.
At first, Petro retaliated with his own rates on North -American products from Colombia.
But in the midst of intense political pressure since its own government, the former Marxist guerrilla fighter acquired all the demands of the United States.
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Colombia President Gustavo Petro initially rejected migrant flights to his country. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, file)
Experts say the Colombian leader was surprised by the economic and diplomatic force by the United States
“The Biden administration I was doing very little to recover some of the really disruptive actions of the Petro government … included in the co-operation of security and the counterattack of drug trafficking, “said Andres Martinez-Fernandez, an analyst of Latin America at the Allison Center. The Heritage Foundation “. I was giving them the letter Blanche in terms of not pushing again. This is important to keep in mind why the Colombian government was so bold. ”
“I was moving a shot, I probably did not expect the United States to go down as strongly as I did, when I imagine I wanted to get it out,” Joseph Humire said, executive director of the center for a safe free society, a Washington , non -profit, based on DC.
“If Petro was left on his own devices, I think he would have happened with this. I don’t think he would matter to him the Colombian economy.”
“His own ministers, other sectors of the Government and, obviously, the private sector, probably pushed him a lot … and he trusted.”
Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris He had often urged migrants not to come to the United States, but illegal immigration figures are stubbornly high.
“I can say clearly: do not come,” Biden told ABC in an interview in 2021. But he continued: “We are in the process of setting up.
Harris told the Guatemalans that same year: “I want to be clear to the people of this region who thinks of making this dangerous trek on the United States-Mexico border: do not come. Don’t come.”
Donald J. Trump was sworn as 47th President on January 20, 2025. (Trump-Vance Transition Team)
White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, published this image on Friday, writing to X that “deportation flights have begun”. (White House)
But the annual net migration, the number of people entering the United States except the number that came out, reached an average record of 2.4 million population growth between 2021 and 2023.
Petro assumed Trump over the weekend when he insisted that he would not accept the return of migrants who were not treated with “dignity and respect” and had reached military aircraft.
But after strong tariff threats “panicized” the government and business leaders in Colombia, the White House announced that Colombia had accepted all the conditions of the United States, including acceptance of migrants on military aircraft.
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Petro accepted 126 deporting flights last year, often with immigrants in shackles to prevent aviation emergencies, as there are much more deported than the officers in charge of accompanying them.
“This is not the first time this has happened, and I think it was a full part of BS (Petro),” said Humire.
“It was a beautiful effort, I would say, little conceived by the Colombians on this front, and for numerous reasons, but in particular, because the economy and the Colombian society and its security apparatus, defense devices, are also deeply. Integrated with the USA and it depends on the United States, “said Martinez-Fernandez.
Colombia is one of the leading recipients of U.S. help in the world due to a security association. Since 2000, Colombia has received more than $ 13 billion in United States Foreign Assistance Defense Departments and State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), focused largely on Cofternarcotics efforts, the continuous implementation of the 2016 Government Peace Agreement with the Rebel Group, integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees and environmental programs.
For years, Colombia had been close to the United States, becoming a great ally that was not a omo in 2022. But under Petro, relations between the two nations took a turn.
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Now, Colombia intends to combat the influence of the United States and to align with China, Russia and Iran and deepen the links to Venezuela, who disagrees with the United States under President Nicolas Maduro.
“Petro’s intention is clear: he is legitimizing the dictatorship to Venezuela and Cuba, bringing Colombia in a different geopolitical orbit,” said Humire.
The space caused a massive break between Petro and its Foreign Minister, Luis Murillo, Colombian The media reported. Murillo, who has been in contact with Trump Ric Grenell’s special envoy to this topic, spent the weekend calling the United States Republican legislators and plans to travel to the United States to soften relations with the largest partner. Commercial of Colombia. The United States represents 34% of the total trade in Colombia.
