US President Donald Trump ordered this Sunday impose 25% tariffs on all Colombian productsafter his counterpart in the Latin American country, Gustavo Petro, refused in the last hours to accept two flights with connationals deported from the US.
Trump also announced visa restrictions for the Petro government and its party, possible economic sanctions to the country and “inspections” to Colombian citizens and merchandise that arrive in the US, and said that, “in a week,” 25% tax tariffs “will rise to 50%”.
“The denial of these flights by Petro has jeopardized national and public security of the United States“Trump said in a publication on his social truth network in which he announced a series of” urgent and decisive reprisal measures “against Colombia.
The new Trump administration indicated Friday that The deportations of undocumented migrants to their countries of origin had “started”but Petro has rejected the transfer of these people to Colombia by considering that they were not receiving a “worthy” treatment.
Trump alleged in his publication that among the individuals that was intended to deport Colombia there was “a large number of illegal criminals.”
In this regard, referring to “national security” issues, he said that will reinforce customs inspection and border protection in front of the “products (products) Colombian” and the citizens who arrive from that country.
Trump also referred to Petro as “the socialist president of Colombia”, who, “was already very unpopular among his people.”
Petro government sanctions
The rest of orders imposed by the US President against the Colombian Executive are the “Prohibition of traveling and the immediate revocation of visas for Colombian government officials and all allies and supporters “; visa sanctions for all members of the Colombia Human party, as well as for their relatives and supporters.
However, Trump did not report a hypothetical closure of the visa section of the American embassy in Colombiawhich had reported some local media this Sunday.
“These measures They are just the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations in relation to the acceptance and return of the criminals who forced their access to the United States! “Concludes the publication of the US president.
Petro had asserted this Sunday that he will not allow the country of airplanes with citizens deported by the United States if they do not receive decent treatment.
“The US They cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals. Unauthorized the entry of American airplanes with Colombian migrants to our territory. The US must establish a decent treatment protocol for migrants before we receive them, “Petro said in his X account.
The Colombian president had already recently questioned some of Trump’s decisions or policies, and last Tuesday he called “dangerous” the comment made by the White House on Latin America, region on which the American ruler said: “No We need them. “
The Differences between the United States and Colombiawith whom the sending of these two flights with Colombian deportees had also been agreed, they also extend to other countries in the Latin American region, which have disapproved the procedures from which, according to Trump, it will be “the largest operation of mass expulsion of foreigners in foreigners in The history of the United States. “
