By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-26 21:27:15 | Updated at 2025-01-30 07:11:55
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UPDATE: Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro Caves to Trump’s Strategic Pressure — Orders Plane to Scoop Up Deportees in a Desperate Bid to Save Face
Gateway Pundit, ^ | Jan. 26, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
Posted on 01/26/2025 1:06:00 PM PST by george76
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla and a vocal critic of the U.S. foreign policy, has embarrassingly folded to President Donald Trump’s strategic pressure, making a drastic U-turn by sending the presidential plane to collect Colombian deportees previously barred from landing.
This move comes after Petro’s initial bravado in blocking two U.S. military deportation flights, a decision that sparked a fiery response from the Trump administration.
President Trump, in a characteristic show of force, didn’t just criticize Petro’s actions but retaliated heavily by implementing severe economic and travel sanctions against Colombia.
The sanctions included an emergency imposition of a 25% tariff on all Colombian goods, a figure that Trump threatened to double within a week.
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After initially puffing his chest in defiance against Trump, Petro has now decided to send Colombia’s presidential plane to fetch deportees he previously didn’t want to touch.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: colombia; colombiaspresident; gustavopetro; marxist; marxistguerrilla; petro
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1 posted on 01/26/2025 1:06:00 PM PST by george76
To: george76
The socialist piece of crap FAFO the hard way.
To: george76
Way to go, Colombia....
To: george76
I can’t keep up with all of the winning!
4 posted on 01/26/2025 1:10:41 PM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations .)
To: george76
I don’t like the deal - keep the sanctions in place. We control the pace of the evictions
5 posted on 01/26/2025 1:11:01 PM PST by 11th_VA (THX ELON)
To: george76
“Colombia’s presidential plane”
That plane is a BBJ 737 business jet set up for
Business people. You aren’t getting 200 passengers in it, more like 25.
6 posted on 01/26/2025 1:11:24 PM PST by rellic (nno such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
To: BookmanTheJanitor
Then the own goal defender was killed ?
7 posted on 01/26/2025 1:11:49 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
Terrible story, they shot that guy a few weeks after the game.
8 posted on 01/26/2025 1:12:11 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: rellic
You aren’t getting 200 passengers in it, more like 25.
How long will it take to decontaminate it after they are all squeezed in?
9 posted on 01/26/2025 1:15:41 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
To: dfwgator
Five days after the Colombia’s match against the United States, which contributed to Colombia’s elimination from the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Escobar was shot and killed in a Medellín parking lot, as retaliation for the own goal
10 posted on 01/26/2025 1:15:42 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Petro figured POTUS Trump was like his globalist, pimp predecessors. Jorge Busho. O'Dummy. Pedo Biden.
"There's a new sheriff in town!"
11 posted on 01/26/2025 1:16:48 PM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
To: george76
The story I heard as they took turns shooting him, every shot they shouted “Goal!”. Frickin’ monsters.
12 posted on 01/26/2025 1:16:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Thanks. Did not know that part.
13 posted on 01/26/2025 1:17:52 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Hope we hear of a rape or murder of a member of the Colombian flight crew while transporting their best and brightest back...
14 posted on 01/26/2025 1:18:11 PM PST by delchiante
To: dfwgator
Saving face. Important to Latins?
Remember the President of Mexico dissing Jimmy Carter in public? Mexico was newly oil rich and they played their hand.
Latin America is better off with the gringos running things. Colonialism brought 3rd world $hitholes into the new world.
Can we do right by Greenland?
15 posted on 01/26/2025 1:20:27 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
To: george76
This reflexive stuff by leftists is so stupid. No adults thinking things through at all. There are 100 reasons why this was a silly and childish idea.
To: george76
Were the C5’s (?) just flying around in a holding pattern all this time?
17 posted on 01/26/2025 1:22:04 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
To: george76
“Colombia’s presidential plane”
Let’s see...estimates of illegal Colombians in the USA range from a low of 200,000 to a high of 2,000,000. Let’s say there are 1 million illegal Colombians in the USA and the presidential plane can be configured to carry 100 people.
That’ll require 10,000 Colombian President Plane trips. At two trips per day, we’ll need your plane for 5,000 days. Throw in, say, 3,000 maintenance and down days, and we need your plane for 22 years to send all your compatriots back.
But President Trump wants them gone in 2025. So either you buy 22 more Presidential Jets or you change your mind and let us use military transports.
Good luck with that, Pedro. How soon do you want to change your mind?
18 posted on 01/26/2025 1:23:07 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.”.)
To: 11th_VA
President Trump has not said he will accept those terms.
Not to Petro - never pick a fight with a guy who is looking to deliver a beat down to send a message to the rest of the world and you are an ideal patsy. .
19 posted on 01/26/2025 1:24:39 PM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
To: Salman
It was a ground hold over paper work? - Not flying around in a holding pattern
20 posted on 01/26/2025 1:25:03 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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