Colombia retreated to deportation flights after Trump’s Tariffs threat

It seems that the coming trade war between the US and Colombia was prevented after the Colombian government agreed to allow US military flights carrying deported migrants to land in the country’s country.

The plush erupted on Sunday when President Gustavo Petroleum banned two military aircraft carrying Colombians deported from the US by landing.

The Trump administration responded, threatening to hit the US exports of the United States.

President Petro initially stated that Colombia would take revenge by imposing tariffs on goods in the United States, but later the White House announced that Colombia had agreed to accept migrants – including those who arrive on US military aircraft – “without restriction or delay. “

The White House welcomes the agreement with Colombia as a victory for Trump’s hard approach after the two countries leaders exchanged threats on social media on Sunday.

“Today’s events clarify to the world that America is being respected again,” White House press secretary Caroline Levit wrote in a statement.

She added that the tariffs and sanctions that the Trump administration has threatened to impose on Colombia, if it does not comply, will be “kept in reserve and are not signed unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement.”

She also said that President Donald Trump “expects all other nations in the world to fully cooperate with the adoption of the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.”

Trump’s cornerstone of the Immigration Policy removes illegal migrants from the US, with the promise of “mass deportations”.

The order between the left -wing President of Colombia and Trump escalated quickly on Sunday.

Peter, an avid social media consumer, has published on X that he “banned us planes carrying Colombian migrants from entering our territory” because “the United States cannot relate to Colombian migrants as criminals.”

He asked the US to put procedures to allow migrants to be “treated with dignity”.

He also said he was ready to send the US presidential plane to transport migrants.

Colombia has accepted deportation flights from the US in the past. In 2024, 124 aircraft carrying deported migrants from the United States landed in the country.

But it seems that President Petroleum objected to the return of the deported by the military, not to civilian flights – and for the way migrants can be treated in these military flights.

In his posts in X, Petroleum refers to a news video showing migrants deported from the United States in Brazil who were handcuffed and restrained their legs during the deportation flight.

He said “will never allow the Colombians to be handcuffed on flights.”

Petro’s refusal to leave two US military aircraft bearing Colombian deporting to cause Trump on Truth Social’s quick reaction.

“I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of illegal criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by the socialist president of Colombia Gustavo Petro His people, “he wrote.

Trump claims that Petro’s abandonment of these flights threatened the US national security and public safety.

He said he directed his administration to “immediately” impose 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods entering the United States, which he said would be increased to 50% if Colombia did not comply within a week.

He also said he had imposed a ban on travel and canceled visas of Colombian government officials “and all allies and supporters.”

In his post, he warned that “these measures are only the beginning.”

Petro responded to X with a long, shaky, but ultimately challenging post, in which he said he would meet all the US tariffs imposed.

“Your blockade does not scare me because Colombia, in addition to being the side of beauty, is the heart of the world,” he writes.

Meanwhile, the members of the Petroice administration were working behind the scenes to defuse the beam.

At a press conference on late night, Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murilo announced that the two countries had “overcome the impasse” and that Colombia would accept the returned citizens.

Until Murilo directly refers to the White House statement that Colombia agreed to allow US military flights to return the deportes, he also did not deny it.

Foreign Minister repeated Colombia’s proposal to send its presidential plane to the United States to transport the deportes.

While the Colombian concession seems to have prevented the coming trade war, the United States has said that visa restrictions on Colombia government officials will remain in place until the first glory of the deported land in Colombia.

The Colombians arriving at US airports will also undergo more high control according to the measures imposed on Sunday, the Trump administration said.

Colombia Foreign Minister said he would travel to Washington “in the following days” for high -level meetings with administration officials.

The order notes a low point of relations between the two countries that have historically been allies and have cooperated closely in the fight against drug trafficking, with the US providing billions of dollars for military assistance and training for Colombia Security Forces.

Penal tariffs, such as those threatened by Trump and Peter, would harm both Colombian producers and US consumers.

The trade between the two countries was worth $ 53.5 billion ($ 42.8 billion) in 2022, According to the US office of the US Sales RepresentativeS

Colombia’s main exports to the United States are oil, coffee and sliced ​​flowers.

Democrats Congress Alexandria Okasio-Cortes urged Americans to “remember: We pay the tariffs, not Colombia.”

“Trump is about to make every American pay even more for coffee,” she wrote, before the tariffs are stopped.

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