The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said this Sunday that he will not allow the country of any American plane with deported citizens if the United States does not guarantee that they receive decent treatment. And Trump’s response has been immediate: he has announced the imposition of 25% tariff Colombians who arrive in the US.
The Colombian president has taken the same measure with the products of the United States: “His blockade does not scare me; Because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. They inform me that you put our fruit 50% tariff to enter the US, I do the same, ”he argued.
Petro has dedicated a long post to President Trump. “I don’t like its oil, Trump, it’s going to end the human species for greed. Perhaps one day, next to a drink of whiskey that I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it is difficult because you consider me a lower race and I am not, nor any Colombian, ”writes the Colombian leader, To add that “if you know someone stubborn,” that is him. “He can with his economic strength and his pride try to give a coup as they did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and resist you. I don’t want slavee next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. ”
Trump’s measures
Trump has assured that, “in a week,” 25% tax tariffs “will rise to 50%.” “The denial of these flights by Petro has endangered the national and public security of the United States,” Trump said in a publication in his social truth network in which he lists a series of “urgent and decisive reprisal measures ”Against Colombia. In its statement to spread Trump’s words, the White House calls Colombia “Columbia.”
The US president also orders the “prohibition of traveling” for the Colombian executive, “the immediate revocation of visas for government officials” and, in general, for “all allies and supporters”, as well as sanctions of the visa “of All party members, their relatives and supporters. ” Petro has responded with irony in his long message on social networks: “Trump, I don’t like to travel to the US, it is a bit boring, but I confess that there are meritorious things. I like to go to Washington’s black neighborhoods (…) I confess that I like Walt Withman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. ”
Use of the presidential and call of the CELAC
Everything exploded after the Colombian president rejected the entry of US military planes that came with Colombian migrants. “A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” he insisted, to add: “I can’t make migrants stay in a country that does not want them, but if that country returns them It must be with dignity and respect with them and our country. ” The president has also requested that these people be sent “in civil airplanes, without criminals’ treatment”, because “Colombia is respected.”
Finally, Petro has ordered that the presidential plane be used for the “dignified return” of migrants and has summoned a meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to address the immigration crisis.
The presidency of Colombia has explained in a statement that “the presidential plane has arranged to facilitate the return of the nationals who were going to arrive in the country today in the morning, from deportation flights.” “This measure responds to the government’s commitment to guarantee decent conditions. In no way, Colombians, as patriots and rights subjects, have been neither of the Colombian territory, ”they say.
The announcement occurs in the midst of the controversy in several Latin American countries for deportations as part of the immigration policy of US President Donald Trump. The Brazilian government denounced on Saturday the use of wives by US authorities against citizens of that country during a deportation flight. Brazilian Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, ordered the Federal Police to ask US agents with the “immediate” withdrawal of the wives, as soon as the plane made a technical stop in the city of Manaus, according to a statement.
On Friday, the White House indicated that the deportations of migrants had “started” in reference to the Main Trump campaign promise of carrying out the greatest operation of mass expulsion of foreigners in the history of the United States. On the same day, the first two deportation flights destined for Guatemala arrived in that country from Laredo, in Texas.
Source: www.eldiario.es
