President Trump was angry after Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced he had refused US military aircraft carrying immigrants, according to AFP. Mr. Trump began to retaliate by announcing a 25% tax on Colombia products and this tax rate will increase to 50% in a week.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro (left) and US President Donald Trump
Mr. Trump also claimed he would immediately recover visas for Colombian government officials as well as “supporters” President Petro, and put Colombians more supervised at airports.
“These measures are only the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian government to violate our legal obligations related to accepting and returning criminals because they forced into the US!”,, “, Mr. Trump wrote on social network Truth Social.
In response, President Petro wrote on social network X that he instructed the Minister of Trade to “increase taxes on goods imported from the US to 25%”.
Trump took office of the US president on January 20 with the promise to arrest and quickly deport the illegal foreigners in the United States, but faced the opposition from Mr. Petro, according to AFP.
“The United States cannot treat Colombian migrants like criminals. I banned American aircraft carrying Colombian migrants entering our territory,” Mr. Petro wrote on X earlier.
Later, Mr. Petro continued to “reject American military plane”. Trump said two US aircraft were not allowed to land in Colombia.
The Colombian government said that instead, they were ready to send the presidential aircraft to the US to transport “respectfully” those who migrated on the flight were blocked by Colombia.
President Petro emphasized that he was ready to allow American civilian flights to carry migrants who were deported, as long as people on airplanes were “criminals”.
Meanwhile, Mr. Petro said that more than 15,600 Americans had no papers living in Colombia and called on them to “legitimatize their situation”, and eliminate raids to arrest and deport them. , according to AFP.
