Colombia’s Petro message to Trump: I won’t kneel — “I’m informed that you impose a 50% tariff on our human labor product to enter the U.S., I’ll do the same”

https://colombiaone.com/2025/01/26/colombia-president-petro-message-trump/

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  4. Whoever is reading this, do whatever you can to spread the word that this is NOT a win for Trump. Let’s brainstorm ideas for how to do that. One way is to remind people that Colombia’s protest from the beginning is the way the undocumented Americans were treated and it is against their human dignity to be flown like cargo in military planes. If this gets perceived as a win for Trump it can give him political capital he can spend on starting genocides against trans folks and undocumented Americans.

  5. From CNN:

    Economic and foreign policy analysts are urging Colombia to take caution after getting involved in a diplomatic feud with the US over the deportation flights.

    A think tank of former foreign ministers and analysts urged the Colombian government to preserve its relationship with Washington through dialogue and mutual respect.

    “The Colombian Council on International Relations (CORI) calls on the national government to exercise its foreign policy with responsibility, pragmatism and strategy. … There is no room for improvisation in international relations,” the group said in a statement.

    The group also said migration flows must be addressed in compliance with bilateral agreements, noting that in 2024, 124 deportation flights were carried out from the US to Colombia with the approval of both governments, in what it called a “historic and permanent mechanism.”

    CORI added that both nations must avoid commercial retaliation, which it said would only harm Colombia.

    The head of the Colombo American Chamber of Commerce, Maria Claudia Lacouture, echoed those sentiments in a post on X, saying, “We call for sanity, dialogue and common sense, prioritizing diplomatic channels to overcome this serious crisis in the shortest possible time.”

    She warned that if the US imposes 25% tariffs on Colombian products, the impact would be immediate and devastating.

    “In coffee alone, more than 500,000 families depend on this sector. In flower farming, thousands of single mothers would lose their livelihood. And we can continue adding sectors that will be affected,” she said.

  6. Wrote so much to capitulate 2 hours later?.
    Literally the most humiliating message I’ve read in a while, goes on and on how he will resist everything, torture etc.. ahahaha

  7. Dam the guy crashed out hard with this one. Most of it is nonsense that he spewed out at the heat of the moment and its going to have dire consequences for his country.

  8. This is an unforced error from Trump. Extremely pointless trade war.

  9. The gym had Fox News on one of the TVs. They were talking about how Colombia had capitulated and is now allowing deported migrants to land in the country.

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