Trump announces sanctions to Gustavo Petro’s government for preventing landing with deportees

Washington – President Donald Trump announced “urgent and decisive” reprisals to Gustavo’s government Petro, After the refusal to accept flights with immigrants deportees, Although Colombia previously authorized them and had approved the highest levels of the government.

“They just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of illegal criminals, could not land in Colombia. This order was given by the socialist president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular among his People.

He then announced that his administration has arranged immediate measures to retaliate “urgent and decisive” such as the increase in emergency tariffs of 25% over all goods that enter the United States. In a week, tariffs will rise from 25% to 50%.

The sanctions They include the prohibition of travel and immediate visas revocations to Colombian government officials and all allies and supporters.

Likewise, the United States designates the suspension of visas to all members of the Petro party, family and supporters of the Colombian government; exhaustive customs inspections and border protection for all Colombian citizens and the burden from that country for national security reasons.

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VISA SECTION CLOSURE

An hour before, the United States embassy in Bogotá announced the closure of its visa section as of Monday, January 27.

“In response to President Petro’s refusal to accept two flights with Colombian deportees, which the president had previously authorized and that had been approved at the highest levels of the government, the United States embassy in Colombia will close the visas section tomorrow. In addition, additional retaliation measures will be implemented, “sources from the embassy cited by various Colombian media explained.

Petro had argued that “the US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals.” “Unauthorized the entry of North American airplanes with Colombian migrants to our territory,” he said in his account in the social network X. Petro thus summoned the United States to “establish a decent treatment protocol to migrants before we receive them.”

Fear of US military planes?

He later argued that he rejected the planes because “a migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves” and because they were military airplanes. “In civil airplanes, without criminals we will receive our nationals. Colombia is respected,” he wrote in his account in X.

However, before these messages, Petro had published another announced the arrival of two of these flights in which invited people to receive repatriated “with flags and flowers“However, the message was erased minutes later and replaced by the final.

“At 6.45 AM, the first plane with Colombian deportees in the United States will arrive. Another plane will reach 10 am, let’s receive them with flags and flowers,” said the original message, whose screenshot has been published on social networks.

Once the measure was announced, Petro caught attention to the presence of 15,660 American “established in Colombia irregularly.” “They must approach our immigration service to regularize their situation,” he announced.

The human trafficking route, the Darien

The Colombian president also referred to the negotiations about the Darién. “I hope the dialogue about Darién does not freeze. If there is no regularization, illegalities will increase. We already saw it when the United States blocked Venezuela and exploded the migratory wave. First it is the dignity of Colombia and Latin America. Migrants are beings are beings human and rights subjects and as such they must be treated, “he added.

Petro convened an extraordinary assembly of Latin American presidents to examine the problems of migration and the new drug market configuration in America. “If they don’t love us in the north, the south must join. They have never had dignity. Let’s experience it,” he stuck.

Colombia and the United States signed a year ago, before the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House, a new protocol for the return of Colombians that accelerated the process and expanded the frequency of flights, up to about four per month.

The closure of the visas section, which is the issues so that Colombians can travel to the United States for tourism, for work and study constitutes an answer without a history with a great impact.