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Trump’s administration announced on Sunday night to pause criminal customs against Colombia after her leader agreed to approve the entry of US military flights deporting migrants.
This announcement seemed to have pre -empted a trade war between two allies after Columbia banned the two US military aircraft on Sunday, carrying deported persons. Washington responded by imposing customs of 25 percent to import from the country.
Bogotá said she would apply her own reciprocal customs as president Donald Trump And his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro, a leftist, a former member of Gerila, exchanged criticism on social networks.
On Sunday night the White House said Colombia “Considered all the conditions of President Trump.” However, it is said that visual sanctions against the Colombian Government officials will remain in force “until the first aircraft full of Colombian deported persons are successfully returned.”
“Today’s events make it clear to the world that America is respected again,” the White House said in a statement.
“President Trump will continue to fiercely protect the sovereignty of our nation and expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportations of their nationals who are illegally in the US.”
In a television statement on Sunday night, Luis Gilberto Murillo, a Colombian Foreign Minister, said: “We prevailed a blind street with a government of the United States.”
Murillo said he would travel to Washington in the coming days to “monitor the agreements”, although he did not mention the content of the agreement. He also said that the Colombian presidential aircraft would be available to facilitate the arrival of migrants who were rejected on Sunday.
“We will continue to receive the Colombians and Colombians who return as deported, guaranteeing them dignified conditions as citizens with rights,” Murillo said.
The altercation broke out when Petro stated in the X announcement that according to deported migrants, he should treat “dignity and respect” and that Colombia rejected the US military aircraft transporting deported persons.
Trump replied, accusing Petra in the announcement of Truth Socialus of threatening “national security and public security of the United States”.
He announced an emergency customs duties of 25 percent that would increase to 50 percent for a week, with a ban on travel and a “current abolition of visas” for the Colombian Government officials “and all allies and supporters.”
Will Freeman, an associate for Latin American Studies at the Council for External Relations, noticed that Colombia was sending almost a third of his export to the US “, so these urgent customs and threat to her further increase in serious.”
Trump promised to implement the biggest mass deportation of illegal migrants in the history of the United States, disturbing the estimated 11 million immigrants without documents in the US and countries in the region.
The Brazilian government condemned the “degrading” use of foxes on its nationals in a US deportations from the US. BrasÃlia announced that she had stopped the continuation of the flight to the final destination of Belo horizonte due to the cuff, the “bad state of” aircraft and “anger” 88 Brazilian citizens for “unworthy treatment”.
The Brazilian Minister of Justice said that “flagrant disrespect for the fundamental rights of Brazilian citizens had occurred.”
Although Colombia and the US have long been close allies – with Washington, who secured Bogoti about $ 10 billion in military and foreign assistance to combat rebels and drug traders between 1999 and 2016 – Trump and Petro are ideologically opposed.
“It is important that Petro and many Latin American leaders show resistance to this migration policy,” said Sergio Guzmán, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, a consulting company based in Bogota. “Petro tries to show strength and project an ideological difference with Trump.”
The course of migrants to the north through Darién Gap, a dangerous part of the jungle that separates Colombia and Panama, fell 40 percent in the past year at 302,000, according to the Panama Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after suffocation by the Panaman authorities.
But many migrants used legal paths opened by Biden’s administration to move to the US, and the total number of migrants is still close to recent record values.
It’s Mexico negotiate with the US Due to immigration and drugs to try to avoid a 25 percent customs on its export to the US from next week.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum emphasized that, although she disagrees with deportations, Mexico will collaborate with the US and have a “good” relationship with Trump’s administration.
Additional Steff Chávez report from Washington
