Colombia’s Petro will not allow US planes to return migrants

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

by Puffin_fan

8 comments

  1. Summary / Introduction :

    Inflation under DFT is about to worsen

    $500 billion for the new privatized surveillance state functionaries

    How many tens of billions of dollars for abortive flights to Brazil airports, Mexico, and Colombia ?

  2. You never know what he’ll do. They might start flying them into the middle of nowhere and just dumping them there.

  3. “The fuck are we suppose to do with all these Colombians?”— the president of Colombia 

  4. “Just have them fly real slow and low over the country and toss them out.” – Donald Trump, probably

  5. As a Colombian it’s hard to know which one of these people I dislike more.

    Trump is a monster for the reasons all Americans know.

    Petro is a monster for reasons only Colombians know, such as letting patients die by refusing to properly fund the healthcare system out of ideological reasons.

    They’re actually rather similar except on different ideological extremes, they both govern through Twitter, they write and say long, rambling, incoherent monologues, they despise institutions and want to rule by decree, they fixate on random issues instead of what their people care about, they’re both economically illiterate (despite Petro’s degree being in economics) and so on. Authoritarian populists, whether far right or far left, tend to share similar traits after all.

    The one difference? two and a half years into his presidency Petro’s popularity stands at around 35% and his party won’t be winning the presidency again any time soon.

  7. These countries have relied on the US to avoid problems. A large population of young, unemployed, males is how you find yourself in a revolution. An influx of people back to El Salvador or Guatemala is not what they want or need.

    The US has tacitly supported many of these countries with reduced enforcement and bureaucratic processes that have seen reduced deportations while a stable flow of remittances. Mexico, Nicaragua and El Salvador are reliant on them for a measure of stability. What happens when the taps turn off?

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